The Committee on Princetoniana recently honored Tom Swift '76 and the PA3 for their work on the Oral History Project.  You can view the resolution passed by the committee here.

The following write up on the project appeared in the Regional Roar, The Newsletter of the Committee on Regional Associations, in the Late Fall 2011 edition.


The Oral History Project sponsored by the Princetoniana Committee was started in 2006 and consists of oral history interviews undertaken by alumni to capture Princeton’s history from Old Guard alumni, early alumnae, and others with significant Princeton connections and perspectives.

The interviews are free-form but do use a topic guide of questions that focuses on the interviewee’s experiences at Princeton, and they typically last about an hour and are audio-recorded. They are then transcribed, and the transcripts and recordings are entered into the University Archives at Mudd Library (and can generally be found online). To date, approximately 40 interviews have entered the archive.

The Princetoniana Committee is looking for volunteer interviewers to support this wonderful initiative in capturing histories of Princeton and its historical intersections.

The committee has found that regions conducting an “Interview Fest” in a central location can be quite successful. By offering refreshments and providing recording equipment and interview guides in a wheelchair-accessible location, local alumni (both interviewers and interviewees) are more likely to volunteer, and great progress can be made. To that end, the Princeton Area Alumni Association (PA3) has built a process to find and train volunteer interviewers, and they have acquired a pool of ten recorders that can be made available to any region wanting to conduct local interviews.


Excerpts from interviews can be found here.

PA3 Annual Family Christmas Caroling

Sunday, December 19^th from 3:30-5: 3 0pm

Join local area alumni and their families for a lively round of caroling in downtown Princeton, led by Princeton University’s own Katzenjammers (www.princeton.edu/~pukatz ).

Bring your holiday cheer and we’ll provide the sheet music!

Meet at Fitzrandolph Gate, in front of Nassau Hall.

DRESS WARMLY!!

Please RSVP so we can plan how much mulled wine, hot cider, hot cocoa and sweets to prepare.  Thanks to alums Sara and Dan (both ’09) for hosting the post-caroling reception at their Nassau Street apartment (80 Nassau St #3A)!

For more information, contact Lydia Zaininger ’83 at activities@princetonaaa.org (cell 609-203-0842).

Wednesday, January 18^th : Tiger Talk featuring Elizabeth Bogan, PhD, discussing  projected costs of Medicare and the delivery of medical services in the future

Date: Wednesday, January 18th, 2012 

Time: 7 pm – 9 pm

Location: Princeton University - Friend Center Convocation Room (at the corner of Williams and Olden Streets)

 

Join us for the next installment of PA3’s Tiger Talks, featuring guests discussing controversial topics with the audience.    The ticket price is $5 for dues paying members of PA3 and their guests and $10 otherwise. 

 

To RSVP or for more information, contact president@princetonaaa.org.

Elizabeth Bogan has been Senior Lecturer in Economics at Princeton University since 1992. Dr. Bogan was formerly Chair of the Economics and Finance Department, Fairleigh Dickinson University, and a member of the Executive Committee for the College of Business Administration. She received an A.B. degree in Economics from Wellesley College, an M.A. degree in Quantitative Economics from the University of New Hampshire, and a Ph.D. degree in Economics from Columbia University. She has been involved in several decades of research and scholarship, and has authored several writings on finance, published in The Financial Analysts Journal and in other journals.

Type of Ticket

Dues Payer and Guest $5.00 USD Non-Dues Payer $10.00 USD

Hobart Earle ’83, who is the Maestro of the world-renowned Odessa Philharmonic Orchestra and has conducted over two dozen of the world’s orchestras, returns to Princeton as guest conductor of the Princeton University Orchestra on December 9th and 10^th at 8 PM.  Tickets are available for $15 at http://purchase.tickets.com/buy/TicketPurchase?organ_val=21394, or at the Richardson Auditorium Box Office (609-258-9220

As a special treat, we have invited Hobart, whose father was also PA3 member, to talk with PA3 members over drinks at the Alchemist and Barrister (*) immediately following the performance.  If you’re interested in attending this exclusive, limited-seating, PA3 event, please reserve a spot by contacting princetonareaalumni@gmail.com 

(*) Venue to be confirmed and may change depending on the number of people registering; in any event we will meet in the lobby of Richardson after the concert on the 9th of December and head over.

November 12, 2011: While several thousand unhappy Princeton fans watched their football team fall to Yale, a dozen Princeton fans of another sort enjoyed a rewarding day clearing a mile-long trail in the beautiful St. Michael’s Preserve in Hopewell. Volunteers (as shown in the group photo) were, rear row: Paul Nehring ’10, Lauren Senesac GS, Doug Ling ’83, Philo Elmer ’69; front row: Victoria Stabile p11, Cole Schlesinger GS, Arlen Hastings ’80, Jim Robertson ’91 with daughter Kiri, Lydia Zaininger ’83, and Alexandra Ling, Doug’s daughter. Jim Amon, D&R Greenway’s stewardship director, led the way and told us about the ecology of the preserve.

More photos on Facebook.