Moved to Kendall Park in 1959.  She postponed her interest in painting in order to raise five children who were close in age.  When she was in her 50's she resumed painting and received a scholarship to the Mason Gross School of the Arts Developed her own style in creating abstract images via mixed-media collage techniques.  She has used acrylics, pastels, charcoal, paper cutouts, colored … [Read more...]

With her husband, Mark, built the South Brunswick High School music program into a robust, nationally recognized and award-winning program over the past nearly 40 years with the District Retired in 2019 as the South Brunswick Choir Director Created a highly regarded and accomplished program with numerous performances at Carnegie Hall and at Library functions Visual Designer and … [Read more...]

Born in 1938 in Atlantic City, New Jersey.  She earned her BA Degree at Douglass College in 1976, and a Masters of Arts Degree at Rutgers University in 1979 Was an English teacher at South Brunswick High School for 25 years.  She founded the Creative Writing program there.  She also wrote a book, A TEACHER'S STORIES,  in 1994, about her experiences there Joyce Lott's chapbooks of poems are … [Read more...]

Andrea Brachfeld started playing the piano at age six.  At age ten she took up the flute in school.  She entered the High School of Music and Art in 1969 and majored in the flute.  While there, she got to play with such notables as Noel Pointer, Nat Adderly, Jr., Dave Valentin, Earl Macintyre, and Buddy Williams Her first jazz gig was at St. Peter's Church when she was sixteen.  At this time, … [Read more...]

Anna Quindlen is a 1970 graduate of South Brunswick High School and a 1974 graduate of Barnard College Worked as a reporter for the NEW YORK POST starting in 1974.  She became a noted journalist and opinion columnist.  Her NEW YORK TIMES column, "Public and Private," won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1992 Left journalism to become a full-time novelist in the 1990s.  Her … [Read more...]