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INSIDE THIS ISSUEStudying abroad

Students experience Germanyin exchange program. PAGE 3

NORA CARNEVALE/The Sun

Sophomore Cameryn Benz speeds around North Hunterdon defenders at the game on Jan. 7. The final score was 53-26, making theMontgomery High School girls’ record 1-5.

Montgomery tops North Hunterdon, 53-26New mayorand deputy

mayor areappointedBy NORA CARNEVALE

The Sun

At the Jan. 6 MontgomeryTownship reorganization meet-ing, new Mayor Rich Smith wasappointed, along with DeputyMayor Chris Sugden. A formercouncilmember, Smith is a 17-year resident of Montgomerywith an extensive history of pub-lic service and community in-volvement.

Smith has served on numerouscommittees, is a founding boardmember of the MontgomeryTownship Education Foundation,a co-founder of “OperationFriends,” which aided HurricaneKatrina victims, and has man-aged and coached softball, basket-ball and soccer leagues.

Smith is replacing Ed Trzaska,and Sugden will fill the spot of Pat Graham, both of whomserved Montgomery Townshipfor the past two years. At themeeting, Smith expressed hiscommitment of “serving the peo-ple of Montgomery to the best of my ability, utilizing my experi-ence in business and engineering

please see MAYOR, page 4



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Sourland Hills Actors Guild an-nounces open auditions on Fri-day, Jan. 17 and Thursday, Jan. 23from 6 to 8:30 p.m. at the OttoKaufmann Community Center,356 Skillman Road, Skillman. Thestage production of “Shrek” hasmany roles available for bothadults and children. All ages,from 8-80, are encouraged and

welcome to audition! (There willbe limited roles for ages 8-12.)

Join us as we tell the story of “Shrek” and his loyal steed Don-key as they set off on a quest torescue the beautiful (if slightlytemperamental) Princess Fiona.Add in the diminutive Lord Far-quaad, a gang of fairytale misfitsand a biscuit with attitude to cre-ate a family musical adventure!

To audition, please prepare 16bars from a Broadway musicaland come prepared to dance in asimple movement audition (notall roles require dancing).

Sourland Hills Actors Guild,

Montgomery Township’s commu-nity theater, will welcome backthe successful team of Bob Meolaand Reese Hansen as directors

and Kelly McDermott as choreog-rapher.

Sourland Hills Actors Guild isa volunteer-run, non-profit com-munity theater group, not affiliat-ed with Montgomery schools.Young and old alike work togeth-er to bring the experience of livetheater and music to the commu-nity.

There are numerous opportu-nities to get involved on stage andbehind the scenes in this trulycommunity-wide annual event.The performances will be onApril 4, 5 and 6, so mark your cal-endars now.

For more information on audi-tions or volunteering e-mail:[email protected] or visitwww.sourlandhills.org.

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“The map in the classroomlooked strange to me, until I real-ized that the United States wasnot in the middle of the map ….Germany was ....”

This quote from former Mont-gomery High School student BillDyer about his experience in aGerman classroom abroad epito-mizes the essence of the Germanexchange program with the Max-Planck High School in Goettin-gen. Established in 1985 and stillgoing strong, this international

exchange exposes students to dif-ferent ways of thinking and deep-ens their knowledge of other cul-tures. It offers them, their friends

and families the opportunity toform friendships on a globalscale, improve language skillsand gain rich experiences thatshape and influence them for alifetime.

Over the course of 22 ex-changes since 1985, MTSD stu-dents have come in direct contactwith history – the fall of theBerlin Wall, the reunification of Germany, the advent of the Euro,and visits to German concentra-tion camps. After the 9/11, ourstudents and their families weresupported through the crisis bythe good wishes of many German

friends abroad.This past October, Mont-

Exchange program brings taste of Germany to Montgomery

please see PROGRAM, page 8

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German students pose together with their Montgomery host stu-dents in 2013.

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with vision, passion and the ener-gy required to achieve the aspira-tions of our community.”

Smith also expressed his desireto stay true to Montgomery’s coregoverning principles: “Do morewith less, protect public healthand safety services, and preserveMontgomery’s rural character.”

The mayor acknowledged thetown’s commitment to sustaining“rural character” by reflecting on

the purchase of 10 open spaceproperties over the past fewyears, amounting to more than

350 acres. He promised to contin-ue the effort in 2014, telling resi-dents that the town has “alreadyidentified a few significant prop-erties that we must acquire tocontinue our dedication to thepreservation of open space andour rural character.”

Graham gave similar senti-ments about continuing to cher-ish open space, saying “I look for-ward to also continuing our ef-forts to preserve open space inMontgomery, and I am happy toagain serve as liaison to the OpenSpace Committee. Indeed, it wasthe threatened development of

what is now Skillman Park thatdrew me to local politics severalyears ago.”

The new mayor emphasizedseveral other specific goalsthroughout his speech, focusingon redeveloping land, further im-proving Skillman Park, commit-ting to Cherry Valley Road re-pairs, and school safety and effi-ciency.

Sugden expressed a desire to“question everything” in the com-ing year.

“If the answer to a question is‘because that is the way we havealways done it,’ it is unaccept-able,” he said.

His priority list included keep-ing property taxes in check, at-tracting new and retaining exist-ing local businesses, and ensur-ing local government is commit-ted to serving residents. Addi-tionally, he hopes to strengthenthe link between municipal gov-ernment and Montgomeryschools. Sugden will be serving in

a newly created role as the Mont-gomery Township Committee li-aison to the Board of Education.

The next prominent topic onthe town’s agenda is the budget.

“We must continue to balanceour budget and not over burdenour taxpayers by developing newrevenue streams, sharing servic-es and operating as efficiently aswe can,” Smith said.

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verall, New Jersey’s schools

are excellent. That’s not in

question. A recent study

ranked New Jersey second in the na-

tion in student achievement and

chance for success.

That’s impressive.

The Garden State ranked second on

The Quality Counts report, which the

publisher of “Education Week” con-

ducts. Only Massachusetts ranked

higher than New Jersey in the Chance

for Success Index, which measures the

role of education in an individual’s

life.

The state’s B+ grade was much high-

er than the national average of C+, and

also bested the grade for nearby states

Maryland (B), Pennsylvania (B),

Delaware (B-) and New York (B-).

Yay for us.

With every positive seems to come a

negative, though, or, in this case, an

area in need of improvement.

The same Quality Counts report

ranked New Jersey below average in

the categories of standards, assess-

ments and accountability (C –44th

overall) and teaching profession (D+ -

38th).

It has been widely reported, both

here and elsewhere, that our school

districts are actively working to im-

prove their accountability and assess-

ments, so let’s leave that one alone for

now. The concerning aspect of this

study is, without a doubt, the teaching

profession.

According to the report, New Jersey

has “no incentives for teachers or prin-

cipals working in hard-to-staff disci-

plines or schools, no salary parity with

other occupations, and no financial in-

centives for teachers to earn national

certifications.”

This needs to change.

As we wrote some time ago, our stu-

dents and, therefore, our schools are

only as good as the teachers and ad-

ministrators we hire; ergo, we need to

ensure that our teachers and adminis-

trators are not only well qualified at

the time of hiring but are also incen-

tivized to grow professionally within

our system as well.

Our schools are great now, but let’s

make sure they continue to be great.

Let’s find a way to incentivize our

teachers and administrators to work in

difficult subjects, in difficult schools

and earn bigger and better certifica-

tions.

Our students are the ones who will

benefit the most.

in our opinion

Let’s do more for our teachersOur schools are good, there’s no doubt, but let’s make them even better

Your thoughts

What are your thoughts on the state ofour schools? Do you believe incentivizingteachers and administrators to grow asprofessionals is worth the return oninvestment? Let your thoughts be heardthrough a letter to the editor.

Montgomery Baseball's 2014 springrecreational registration is now open forall players, ages 4 to 15 from pre-k and up.Montgomery Baseball announced excitingnew changes to the lineup of programs:

• There is a new pre-k division – theCougar Cubs – for players 4-5 years old whowill start kindergarten next fall

• They will continue to have the success-ful I-Ball, D-Ball and Rookie programs – di-visions for players in kindergarten, firstand second grade

• They have created a new third/fourth

grade division – Minors – which is kidpitch, adds base stealing and includes acertified umpire

• They have created a new fifth/sixthgrade division – Majors – which is on thetwo intermediate 50/70 fields, adds leading,

pick-offs, balks, base stealing and includestwo certified umpires

• They are introducing more schedulingflexibility in the Babe Ruth (13 to 15 yearolds) program to allow MHS and UMS ath-letes the opportunity to play MBL recre-ational baseball with their friends withoutconflicting with the school programs

In addition to the recreational leagues,there are many fun events in store:

• Expanded Opening Day Ceremony ac-tivities

• Applebee’s Family Pancake Breakfast

• Montgomery High School home gamehosted at the McKnight Complex

• MBL Night Out at the Somerset Patri-ots Game

• MBL free outdoor movie night at theMcKnight Complex

• Expanded championship day festivities• New clinic and training options, in-

cluding free partnership programs withMHS Varsity Baseball Coach Pete Muellerand OHES physical education teacherJohnny Rooney of JR Hit-n-Run Academy

• New for 2014 – team-specific calendarsand optional text alerts for practice andgame reminders!

This year, with a few clicks you will cre-ate an account that makes registration eas-ier and gives you access to new featuresfrom website partner, League Lineup, in-

cluding text alerts for your game and prac-tice schedules and field closings when itrains.

Visit the website at www.Montgomery-Baseball.com to learn more and registertoday.

Changes for Montgomery Baseball’s spring season





WE NES Y JAN. 15

Shade Tree Committee meeting:7:30 p.m. in the conference room.For more information and to con-

firm meeting time, visitwww.montgomery.nj.us.

THURS Y JAN. 16

Montgomery Township Committeemeeting: 7 p.m. in the courtroom. For more information and

to confirm meeting time, visitwww.montgomery.nj.us.

Story Time: Ages 2-6. 10 to 10:30a.m. at Mary Jacobs Library. Sto-ries, songs and more. This week’s

theme is “Awesome Author.” Noregistration needed.

FRI Y JAN. 17

Auditions: Sourland Hills ActorsGuild open auditions for ‘SHREKthe Musical’ from 6 to 8:30 p.m.

at the Otto Kaufmann Communi-ty Center, 356 Skillman Road,Skillman. Adults, teens and chil-dren, from ages 8 to 80, are wel-come to audition (limited rolesfor 8 to 12-year-olds). Perform-

ances will be in early April atMontgomery High School Per-forming Arts Center. For moreinformation email [email protected] or visit www.sourland-hills.org.

MON Y JAN. 20

Library closing: The Mary JacobsLibrary will be closed in obser-vance of Martin Luther King Jr.Day.

TUES Y JAN. 21License Appeals Board meeting: 7

p.m. in the meeting room. Formore information and to confirmmeeting time, visit www.mont-

gomery.nj.us.Zoning Board of Adjustment meet-

ing: 7:30 p.m. in the court room.For more information and to con-

firm meeting time, visitwww.montgomery.nj.us.

Toddler Sing with Pat: Ages 1 to 3.10:30 to 11 a.m. at Mary JacobsLibrary. Sing along fun with PatMcKinley. No registration.

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gomery received a delegation of 23 German high school studentswho, in their turn, confronted therealities of American politicalcontroversy when some of theirexcursions to national monu-ments were impeded by the U.S.government shutdown. Most no-table among students this yearwith the impending arrival of the

Affordable Care Act, were exten-sive discussions among studentsregarding the different health-care systems. This brief, but sig-nificant, intersection of currentevents with personal events cre-ates rich fodder for inquiry, de-bate and greater understanding.

The success of the program atMTSD would be unlikely, howev-er, without the dedication andhard work of its German faculty – Elinor Williams (founder), KarinLee and Lale Saatchi. These de-

voted teachers select host stu-dents and families, plan and or-ganize trips, prepare students lin-guistically and culturally fortheir experiences and accompanythem here and abroad.

Each exchange consists of atwo-way visit, usually three

weeks in each school. The heartof the program is the familyhome-stay together with schoolattendance. The effect on stu-dents has been immeasurable interms of personal growth, ac-quired language skills, broadenedhorizons and appreciation of his-tory, art and music.

Of their glimpse into the Ger-man world, Montgomery studentsespecially love the sense of inde-pendence in a place where they do

not have to rely on cars; the beau-ty of Göttingen and its publicplaces; tea at Cron&Lanz; Germanbread; and a delicious cross-sec-tion of German street food andTurkish culture – Döner kebabs.

The exchange is sponsored bythe German American Partner-ship Program, GAPP, a non-profitorganization funded by the Ger-man Foreign Office and the U.S.State Department. This organiza-tion facilitates exchanges be-tween schools in Germany and

the United States and seeks toprovide students with a coherentintercultural experience throughtheir integration with the every-day life of host families and class-room activities of host schools.

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