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Updated Notable Newarkers

The following are updates on the lives and legacies of many of the Newark residents who were given biographical sketches in The Famous, The Familiar and the Forgotten: 350 Notable Newarkers.

Harriet Stratemeyer Adams was remembered on the 124^th anniversary of her birthday in 2016 with a posting on a website (www.stratemeyer.org ) dedicated to her father, Edward Stratemeyer, and the publishing syndicate that he founded and she later ran. Her life was also revisited in Wellesley College publications on the 100^th anniversary of her graduation in 2014 and again in 2019.

The 45^th anniversary of the corruption trial that sent Hugh J. Addonizio to prison was marked by a program and exhibit at the federal courthouse in Trenton in 2015.

Stephen N. “Big Steve” Adubato Sr. died on Oct. 13, 2020. He was 87. His son, Steve Jr., remains a TV broadcaster, while his daughter Michelle runs the nonprofit community organization that he founded in Newark’s North Ward.

The Italian Tribune continues to be run by the daughter of former publisher Armando “Ace” Alagna and her husband.

The life of Col. Richard T. Aldworth was recalled in a 2016 posting on the website www.baseballsgreatestsacrifice.com.

John Amos Jr. died on Aug. 21, 2024. He was inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame in 2020. He appeared in 10 movies and a half-dozen TV shows between 2015 and 2023.

The contributions of Louis V. Aronson to Newark industry were recognized during a Newark History Society program in September 2022.

A reprint of the talk that William M. Ashby gave before the Frontiers Club in Newark in 1972 was distributed at a program marking the 20^th anniversary of the Newark History Society in 2022. It also commemorated the 50^th anniversary of Ashby’s address.

Alvin A. “Al” Attles Jr. died on Aug. 20, 2024. He was named to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2019.

Paul B. Auster died on April 30, 2024. He published the novel 4 3 2 1 in 2017 and Baumgartner in 2023. He also published five works of nonfiction between 2017 and 2023, including a biography of Stephen Crane, along with a book of poetry.

A documentary on the life and religious movement of George “Rev. M.J. Divine” Baker was released in 2017. It was entitled Father’s Kingdom. His widow, Edna Rose Ritchings, also known as “Mother Divine,” died on March 4, 2017.

The Washington Street home that belonged to a son and daughter-in-law of Peter Ballantine and today is part of The Newark Museum of Art was reopened in 2023 after a two-year renovation.

A biography of Louis A. Bamberger (Louis Bamberger: Department Store Innovator and Philanthropist) written by Linda B. Forgosh was published by Brandeis University Press in 2016.

An image of Amiri Baraka was included on a mural that was painted on the wall of a building adjoining Newark’s Symphony Hall in 2023. His son Ras was elected to his third term as Newark mayor in 2022 and two years later declared his candidacy for the New Jersey governor’s race in the 2025.

More than two dozen Civil War-era journals from the Newark high school named for Dr. William Nathan Barringer were restored and transferred to the Library of Congress archives in 2023. The project was undertaken by the Barringer High School Alumni Association, one of the pre-eminent organizations of its kind in New Jersey.

The role that Harland Bartholomew played in segregating parts of America through planning policy was pointed out in a couple of online articles and a 2017 book (The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America) by Richard Rothstein, a research associate at the Economic Policy Institute. He came under similar criticism for his work in the Washington, DC, area in an article published in 2020 on the website Greater Greater Washington.

Material on Bernice Bass was included in the papers that journalist and author Barbara Kukla gave to the Newark Public Library in 2016 and 2019.

The foundation established in the name of John F. Bateman has continued recognizing the achievements of current and retired high football coaches in New Jersey. In recent years, the foundation’s awards have been given out at halftime of the annual Phil Simms NJ North/South All-Star Football Classic.

James M. Baxter was mentioned in a book on the racial history of Rutgers University (Scarlet and Black, Volume Two) published in 2020, and he was included in an exhibition on the Institute of Colored Youth that was mounted at Villanova University in 2015. Plans to renovate the former Colored School for Newark (better known as the State Street School) that Baxter once led have experienced a series of stops and starts.

Bishop James Roosevelt Bayley received prominent mention in a 2023 book that looked back on the first 150 years of Seton Hall University’s history. He was also cited in a July 2016 article about the Seton, Bayley and Roosevelt families that appeared on the website of the Vincentian Formation Network.

Works of Hilda Belcher were included in an exhibition at the Maclure Library in her hometown in Vermont in 2024 as well as in a Vassar College exhibition in 2021.

William “Bill” Bellamy appeared in seven movies between 2016 and 2023 and mostly played himself on more than a dozen TV shows. He also starred in a Netflix series and in a comedy special.

A film on the life of Morris “Moe” Berg premiered in 2018, followed the next year by a documentary (The Spy Behind Home Plate).

Antoinette Brown Blackwell was mentioned in the 2014 book From Eve to Evolution: Darwin, Science, and Women’s Rights in Gilded Age America. The United Church of Christ oversees the Antoinette Brown Awards and Antoinette Brown Society.

A brief biography of Vivian Blaine appeared on the Travalanche website (www.trasvd.wordpress.com) in 2021, the year she would have turned 100.

The life story of Ruggiero “Richie the Boot” Boiardo was featured in the September 2021 issue of Weird N.J. The same magazine had published an interview with the author of a Boiardo biography in its issue #43 (Oct. 2014-May 2015).

Cory A. Booker ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic nomination for president in 2020 but was re-elected to his U.S. Senate seat from New Jersey that same year.

The public housing project in Newark named for Seth Boyden was demolished in 2022. Plans were later announced to turn the site into TV and film studios.

The name of Joseph P. Bradley was removed from a building (Bradley Hall) on the Newark campus of Rutgers University in 2021 when a school committee found he had used his U.S Supreme Court position to set back the cause of civil rights. He was mentioned in that same regard in a New York Times op-ed piece (“The Massacre That Emboldened White Supremacists”) published online in April 2020.

A decision by William J. Brennan Jr. and six other U.S. Supreme Court justices in the famous Roe v. Wade abortion case was overturned in 2023. Constance Phelps, the justice’s granddaughter, wrote a story about him in the National Catholic Reporter in 2019 that also made mention of her great grandfather William J. Brennan Sr. The Brennan Center for Justice in New York continues its work on behalf of equal justice and the rule of law.

The life of Fanny Brice was remembered in the revival of Funny Girl that opened on Broadway in 2022.

In April 2023, The New Yorker magazine took a look back on the life of Claude Brown and the biographical novel (Manchild in the Promised Land) that he published in 1965, assessing how much race relations had changed between those years.

Mary B. Burch was included on a Newark Public Library blog started in 2022 (www.newarkwomen.com) that seeks to publicize the lives of “little known women from Newark, NJ.”

Dr. William Burnet was listed as one of the top 10 doctors of the Revolutionary War on the website Founder of the Day (www.founderoftheday.com ). The website “recounts the stories of unheralded American Founders with a focus on underappreciated tales from the creation of the United States.” Burnet also appears in numerous online family genealogical records.

Aaron Burr Jr. was depicted in the Broadway musical Hamilton that opened in 2015 and remains running. Leslie Odom Jr. won a Tony Award for playing Burr.

Rev. Aaron Burr Sr. was cited as one of the Princeton University presidents to be a slaveholder by The Princeton & Slavery Project (www.slavery.princeton.edu ), a self-described and ongoing “exploration of Princeton University’s historical ties to the institution of slavery” that was begun in 2013. His life was profiled on the program 5 Minutes in Church History posted online (www.ligonier.org) in December 2020. References to him have also appeared in postings on The Aaron Burr Association, a nonprofit organization more closely tied to his son, as well as on www.revolutionary-war.net.

Stephen Burrows was given the key to the City of Newark in 2018.

William J. Campbell regularly shows up in reruns of Star Trek, Gunsmoke, Bonanza, Perry Mason, Ironside, The Streets of San Francisco, Adam-12 and Marcus Welby, MD among other TV shows along with any number of old movies, including the Elvis Presley film Love Me Tender and the film version of Norman Mailer’s The Naked and the Dead.

Robinson Cano was named to the Major League Baseball All-Star game for the seventh and eighth times in 2016 and 2017 but was suspended from playing in 2018 for violating the league’s performance-enhancing drug policy. He returned to the game in 2019 but was suspended for drug use again in 2020. In 2024, Cano was playing in Mexico.

A park in Brooklyn, NY, was named for Lillie Mae “Betty Carter” Jones in 2019, while the Betty Carter Auditorium of the Arts in Brooklyn hosted its first concert in 2022.

The National Park Service acknowledged Robert L. Carter on its website (www.nps.gov ) in 2020 in connection with the Brown v. Board of Education National Historical Park.

Michael Caruso and his stable partners have enjoyed success at the highest levels of thoroughbred racing, winning both Breeders’ Cup races and Eclipse Awards.

A short article about Gerardo “Jerry” Catena appeared on the Gangland Wire Crime Stories website (www.ganglandwire.com) in 2020.

A memorial page for Peter A. Cavicchia has been set up on Facebook.

Richard A. “Rick” Cerone was inducted into the College Baseball Hall of Fame in 2020. Memory of his long-forgotten 45-rpm single from 1981 – “A Long Run Home” – was resurrected on a podcast and in newspaper articles in 2023.

A second “l” was mistakenly added to the last name of Diaz Victor “Dean” Cetrullo in the The Famous, The Familiar and the Forgotten: 350 NotableNewarkers. The last name is correctly spelled “Cetrulo.”

In 2022, the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark gave Raymond G. Chambers its Founders Award at its 25^th anniversary gala. Four years earlier, he was appointed the World Health Organization’s “Ambassador for Global Strategy” to advance the group’s global health agenda. In 2017, Rutgers gave Chambers a distinguished alumni award.

A photo that included Rear Adm. Alfred W. Chandler accompanied a 2023 article marking the 100^th anniversary of the Naval Postgraduate Dental School that was published on the U.S. Navy’s website (www.navy.mil).

John M. Chapman was mentioned in the second edition of the book Hearts of Lions: The History of American Bicycle Racing that was published in May 2020 by the University of Nebraska Press.

Christopher J. “Chris” Christie ran unsuccessfully for the Republican nomination for president in 2016 and 2024 and became a political commentator on network TV.

A traveling exhibition of artwork by Minna Citron entitled Minna Citron: The Uncharted Course from Realism to Abstraction ended in 2015. Her work has also been included in the exhibition Print by Women: Selected European and American Works at the Georgia Museum of Art.

Joseph “Joe” Clark died on Dec. 29, 2020, at the age of 82.

A history of William Clark, the Clark family and the family’s thread-making business in New Jersey, along with photos of the manufacturing plant they owned and operated in East Newark, were added to the www.historic-structures.com website in 2023. Work on turning the company’s former East Newark property into a new town center began in 2022.

The Republican candidacy of Rev. Lester H. Clee for New Jersey governor was a major part of an academic piece written by historian Joseph M. Murray and published in January 2023 by New Jersey Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal. The title of the article was “The Real ‘Stolen Election:’ Frank Hague and New Jersey’s 1937 Race for Governor.” A video of the talk that Murray gave on his research at the Jersey City Public Library was made available online.

A documentary on the life of Clarence A. Clemons Jr. (Clarence Clemons: Who Do You Think I Am?) was released in 2019. His saxophone continues to be heard on the archival releases of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, while his birthday has been celebrated each year since 2011 with a concert. Clemons’ former club in downtown Red Bank, NJ, was demolished in late 2023.

George Clinton had a street named for him in Plainfield, NJ, in 2022 at the same time a plaque was placed on a building that once housed a local barbershop where he had founded his early singing group Parliament. Also in 2022, the music room of the elementary school that Clinton had attended in Newark was named in his honor and the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark presented a concert in recognition of his 80^th birthday.

The Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums has continued to give out its annual distinguished achievement award named in honor of Katherine Coffey. The presentation of the award is a high point of the group’s yearly meeting. Coffey was included on a Newark Public Library website (www.newarkwomen.com ) that shines a light on the accomplishments of not so well known Newark women.

Willie Cole Jr. was given The Newark Museum of Art’s Artistic Impact Award in 2024. He continues to exhibit his art and have it collected by major museums. Cole was a featured speaker at one of the Recollections and Reminiscences programs held at the Newark Public Library during the city’s 350^th anniversary celebration in 2016.

Two paintings by Albert Bierstadt that the son of Dr. Abraham Coles gave to the City of Plainfield, NJ, in memory of his father in 1919 became the subject of legal action in 2019 when city officials expressed a desire to sell them. An appeals court ruling is available online as are articles about the litigation that were posted on www.mycentraljersey.com in 2020 and the Antiques and the Arts Weekly website in July 2021. Two poems of Coles have been posted on the Niagara Falls Poetry Project website (www.niagarapoetry.ca).

An expansion and upgrading of a building on the campus of Rutgers-Newark named in honor of Franklin Conklin Jr. (Conklin Hall) began in October 2023. A group of students who occupied Conklin Hall in 1969 seeking greater student, faculty and program diversity returned in February 2019 for a series of events marking the protest’s 50^th anniversary.

A statue of James Connolly was unveiled in Belfast in 2016. In 2023, a plaque honoring him was placed on the side of a building in Dublin, Ireland, where he once lived. Connolly Books, Ireland’s oldest radical bookshop that was named for him, continues operating in Dublin, which is also the site of the annual James Connolly Festival.

Stephen Crane was the subject of a biography written by Paul Auster in 2021.

A book on the music and visual art of Robert S. “Bob” Crewe entitled Sight and Sound: Compositions in Art and Music was published in 2021. That same year, a panel discussion on Crewe’s life and work was held at the Nevelson Chapel in New York City.

A ceremony commemorating the renovation and upgrading of the research and reference center inside the Newark Public Library named in honor of Charles F. Cummings was held in April 2024.

A biographical sketch of John T. Cunningham was included in the third edition of Newark’s Literary Lights that was published in 2016.

A home on South Mountain Avenue in Montclair that was once owned by Richard D. Currier was listed for sale at $2.2 million in February 2024 and featured in a photo display on www.northjersey.com. A couple of other websites picked up the listing and ran it as a news story based on the home’s history.

Robert Curvin died on Sept. 30, 2015. He was 81. In 2014, he published Inside Newark: Decline, Rebellion and the Search for Transformation, a book he had worked on for many years. Upon his death, his papers were given to the Newark Public Library.

The American Library Association has continued giving out awards named in honor of John Cotton Dana to libraries that “demonstrate outstanding library public relations.” The commemorative medal awarded by The Newark Museum of Art in Dana’s name was given to the architectural and design firm of Michael Graves in 2018.

A 1941 contract signed by Raymond E. Dandridge to play baseball in Puerto Rico was auctioned off for just over $3,000 by Christie’s in 2016.

An essay on the life and career of Frances Day, with new research on her early years in Newark, was written by Guy Sterling in 2020 and appears on his website and Wikipedia page.

Robert J. DelTufo died on March 2, 2016. He was 82.

Brian DePalma directed the crime thriller Domino that was released in 2019. He was also the subject of a documentary (DePalma) in 2015.

In 2019, Albert “Al” DeRogatis was named one of the most iconic announcers in NFL history by the Associated Press.

Hugh Devore was mentioned in the 2022 book The Great Story of Notre Dame Football.

Joseph N. “Joe D” DiVincenzo Jr. has remained the longest serving county executive in Essex County history with his latest re-elections in 2018 and 2022.

The reports of Amzi Dodd to the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company’s board of directors have been made available in reprint since 2018 as part of the Scholar Select series. One website selling the book said the reports “provide a fascinating glimpse into the world of 19^th century life insurance.”

In 2022, Morehead State Public Radio (KY) broadcast a short history of the life and career of Mary Mapes Dodge as part its series The Reader’s Notebook. Seven years earlier, a brief profile of Mapes was posted on the Literary Ladies Guide website (www.literaryladiesguide.com ), which describes itself as “an archives dedicated to classic women authors and their work.”

The grave of William J. Dudley in Newark’s Fairmount Cemetery remains unmarked.

John Clement Dunn should have been identified as James Clement Dunn in The Famous, The Familiar and The Forgotten: 350 Notable Newarkers.” The U.S. State Department continues giving an award in his name that includes $10,000. Dunn was accused in the Encyclopedia of America’s Response to the Holocaust (edited by historian David S. Wyman) of withholding reports of the mass killing of Jews and impeding rescue possibilities.

A painting by Asher B. Durand (Progress: The Advance of Civilization), said to be one of the most important pieces of American art, was given anonymously to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond in 2018. It had been in private hands since it was completed in 1853. The New York Historical Society published an online article about Durand entitled “Was Asher B. Durand a Proto-Vegan or Just a Vegetarian: Art as Therapy?” in 2016. Durand’s work has also been featured in Nature and the American Vision, an exhibition of paintings by Hudson River School artists that has been traveling the country in recent years.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edmund Morris published a biography of Thomas A. Edison in 2019 that generated many reviews. There were also numerous articles about Edison posted online in recent years by the likes of Scientific American (Edison’s links to napping research), PBS (“The medical mystery that helped make Thomas Edison an inventor”), National Geographic and www.history.com (“6 Key Inventions by Thomas Edison) along with those from lesser known media outlets. Among the many places where additional information can be found on Edison are the National Park Service, Edison Innovation Foundation, www.thomasedison.org and www.thomasedison.com.

The musical 1776 by Sherman Edwards wasrevived a number of times in recent years: In the Encores! series at New York’s City Center in 2016, in Chicago in 2018, at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, MA, in 2022 and then at the American Airlines Theater in New York City, where it ran for three months in 2022.

An article about Thomas Dunn English was posted on The Free Dictionary website in March 2020.

A 1972 recording of Viola W. “Miss Rhapsody” Evans was reissued in 2022 as one of six CDs by various artists in the Matchbox Bluesmaster Series. It was reviewed that same year in Blues Blast Magazine, an internet publication. Material on her life and career was included in the papers that journalist and author Barbara Kukla donated to the Newark Public Library.

The Princeton Alumni Weekly ran an online story in 2022 on the 100^th anniversary of the Princeton-University of Chicago football game held in Chicago that drew so much public attention it was aired on national radio in what was hailed as the most important broadcast ever up until that time. The game’s radio announcer was Gustave A. “Gus” Falzer.

Christian W. Feigenspan was mentioned in a 2018 story on The Daily Beast website entitled “The Great Beer Conspiracy to Overthrow the U.S.” In 2023, an article posted on the Brookston Beer Bulletin website mentioned him and the brewery his father started to mark the father’s birthday.

Writer A.O. Scott cited a book by Leslie A. Fiedler – Love and Death in the American Novel – numerous times in a column he wrote for The New York Times in 2015 on the decline of American culture. A number of Fiedler’s books remain in print.

Ted Fio Rito was featured in May 2022 on the www.gregpoppletonmusic.com website. The posting looked back at a performance by Fio Rito and his orchestra at the Cocoanut Grove nightclub in Los Angeles in 1934. Greg Poppleton bills himself as Australia’s “only authentic 1920s and 1930s singer,” and his website is called From Another Time.

Robert “Ruby Robert” Fitzsimmons has continued to draw media attention. In 2016, ESPN marked the day (November 25) that he became the first man to hold boxing championships in three different weight divisions. Two years later, it ran a story about him when a modern-day heavyweight from New Zealand was fighting for a world boxing title. Articles about Fitzsimmons have also been posted on www.britishvintageboxing.com (November 2020) and www.thefightcity.com (May 2023).

E. Alma Flagg died on March 10, 2018. She was 99.

Armando Fontoura was re-elected Essex County Sheriff in 2015, 2018 and 2021, adding to his tenure as the state’s longest serving sheriff. In March 2024, he announced he would not run for re-election again.

An article about Dr. Albert Forsythe was published on the Black Then website (www.blackthen.com) in June 2022. He has also been mentioned in a number of stories in recent years about his fellow Black aviator and business partner C. Alfred “Chief” Anderson of Tuskegee Airmen fame. One such piece was posted on the Gathering of Eagles Foundation website (www.goefoundation.org). The Dr. Albert E. Forsythe chapter of the Black Pilots of America has remained active and has its own website (www.aefbpa.org).

Connie Francis released another memoir in 2017.

Frederick T. Frelinghuysen died in 1885 and not 1883, as was stated in The Famous, The Familiar and the Forgotten: 350 Notable Newarkers. Articles about him were posted on Conservapedia (www.conservapedia.com) in May 2023 and on www.onhillsborough.blogspot.com in August 2019.

Felix Fuld Court, the housing project in Newark named for Felix Fuld that opened in January 1942, remains standing but abandoned with no immediate plans for demolition or remediation.

The board game named for the Howard R. Garis “Uncle Wiggly” character was updated again in 2018.

A documentary on the life of Gloria Gaynor (Gloria Gaynor: I Will Survive) premiered in 2023. She won her second Grammy Award in 2020, this time for a gospel album.

A biography of Viola Gentry (North Carolina Aviatrix Viola Gentry: The Flying Cashier) written by Jennifer Bean Bower was published in 2015. Smithsonian Magazine had an article about her in 2020, while Bower wrote about her for the Sullenberger Aviation Museum in 2023 and Yes! Weekly in North Carolina in 2018.

John J. Gibbons died on Dec. 9, 2018. He was 94.

Thomas P. Giblin retired from the state Legislature at the end of 2023, leaving the Assembly after serving almost 18 years. He has remained active as a union official.

Kenneth A. Gibson died on March 29, 2019, and a memorial ceremony was held for him at Symphony Hall. He was 86. A bronze statue of Gibson was placed in front of Newark City Hall in 2021, and the city’s major thoroughfare was named in his honor. The website www.newjerseyglobe.com posted a story about his political career in January 2022, while his papers were donated to the New Jersey Historical Society.

The historic farm in Massachusetts (Four Brooks Farm) owned by Richard Watson Gilder and then several generations of his descendants was put up for sale in January 2024. There have been numerous articles published in recent years (and available online) about Gilder, his family or the house in Bordentown, NJ, where he was born and lived and that today serves as the centerpiece of a historic park. The Bordentown Current, along with its online counterpart,is a publication that keeps tabs on the Gilder property in Bordentown and members of the Gilder family. The Bordentown Historical Society does as well, along with presenting Gilder-related events.

Willie Gilzenberg was mentioned in an article in 2021 about the early years of the World Wide Wrestling Federation on www.projectwwf.com. His name and photo also appeared in a story entitled “The Crazy True Story of How WWE Became a Billion Dollar Business” on the gosocial website in 2023.

Irwin Allen Ginsburg had a book on the literary history of the Beat Generation published posthumously by Grove Press in 2017. The book, The Best Minds of My Generation, was based on a series of lectures he had given.

Joyce Randolph, who played “Trixie Norton” on The Honeymooners, which starred Herbert J. “Jackie” Gleason, died on Jan. 13, 2024. She was 99 and the show’s last surviving main character. MeTV’s website ran a story on Gleason in December of 2023, while other articles about him appeared on www.facts.net (January 2024) and www.factinate.com (August 2023). There is a website in Gleason’s name (www.jackiegleason.com) as well as a Facebook page called “The Jackie Gleason/Honeymooners Museum “

Savion Glover choreographed the 2016 Broadway musical Shuffle Along, or the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All that Followed and was nominated for a Tony Award in the best choreography category. His mother, jazz and gospel singer Yvette Glover, died on Feb. 11, 2020. He continues performing.

In May 2022, Indiana Public Media (www.indianapublicmedia.org ) published a piece on its website about Babs Gonzalez entitled “How Professor Bop Paid His Dues: Babs Gonzalez.” An album by Gonzalez (The Bebop Story) released in 1971 on vinyl was reissued as a digital album in 2022. Another Gonzalez album (Weird Lullaby) gets advertised on Sonny Rollins’ website (www.sonnyrollins.com ).

State Street in Newark between Broad Street and MLK Boulevard was named in honor of Rev. Hannibal Goodwin in 2016 near the Plume House, the building where he invented flexible film. In 2017, a story about the Plume House and Goodwin was posted on www.jerseydigs.com. Historian Gordon Bond gave a talk about Goodwin at the Newark Public Library in November 2021, while Bond continues researching and writing a Goodwin biography.

Alfred T. Goullet was inducted into the Cycling Australia Hall of Fame in 2016. He was already a member of the Sport Australia Hall of Fame.

Dartmouth College, through its Center for Social Impact, has continued giving an award in the name of Lester B. Granger to a graduate or graduates with a lifetime commitment to public service. He was also featured in the spring 2023 edition of the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine in an article entitled “Underappreciated Giant.”

The key role that William Stryker Gummere played in college football’s first recognized game (Princeton v. Rutgers) was detailed in a February 2020 article posted on The Football Odyssey: Exploring the Saga of American Football website (www.thefootballodyssey.com).

Five Bernard Gussow paintings depicting New York City subway scenes were featured in a May 2023 posting on the Ephermeral New York website that has as its mission “chronicling an ever-changing city through faded and forgotten artifacts.” Gussow’s work continues to sell at auction.

Marvelous Marvin N. Hagler died on March 13, 2021. He was 66.

The Hahne and Company department store on Broad Street founded by Julius Hahne was restored, expanded and reopened as a residential, educational, arts and commercial complex in January 2017.

A biography of William H. “Sliding Billy” Hamilton was included in the Society for American Baseball Research book The Glorious Beaneaters of the 1890s published in 2019. There is also a biographical sketch of him on the organization’s website. Sports Illustrated ran an article about Hamilton in October 2021, as had the Telegram & Gazette of Worchester, MA, a year earlier.

An article about Jed Harris was posted in February 2018 on the website Travalanche (www.trasvd.wordpress.com).

Larry Hazzard Sr. has continued serving as New Jersey’s boxing commissioner, a job he has held twice. The first stint lasted from 1985 until 2007, with the second beginning in 2014. He has also been a ringside commentator for TV fights since 2015. His son, TV boxing producer Larry Hazzard Jr., was inducted into the New Jersey Boxing Hall of Fame in 2019.

The Rutgers Law School in Newark continues sponsoring a program in honor of C. Willard Heckel that brings lawyers, judges and law students together in a series of meetings throughout the year that are designed “to further civility and excellence in the practice of law” in New Jersey’s state and federal courts.

The life of Gustav “Gus” Heningburg was remembered in February 2024 on the website RLS Media, which describes itself as the “best source in Newark, New Jersey for breaking news.” Rolling Stone magazine ran an article in July 2021 on a music festival that Heningburg had helped organize when he was president of the Greater Newark Urban Coalition. The “Love Festival” was held in Weequahic Park on Oct. 5, 1969, and was filmed for an hour-long TV special.

An article entitled “Infelicissimus” about Henry William Herbert was posted in May 2023 on a website called An attractive presence: The World of William A. Whitehead (www.wawhitehead.net). Herbert and his work were included on a database of Victorian fiction that appeared on the Victorian Research website (www.victorianresearch.org) in December 2023. Five years earlier, The Literary Maiden website (www.theliterarymaiden.wordpress.com) ran a story about him.

Eugene V. “Gene” Hermanski was fondly remembered in a story that Dodgers broadcaster Vin Scully told on “Jackie Robinson Day” at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles in 2017.

Max J. Herzberg was included as one of the writers profiled in the 2016 edition of Newark’s Literary Lights. A photo of him with his signature from the June 1938 Weequahic High School yearbook was posted on the Newark’s Attic: The History of Newark through the Eyes of a Collector blog in June 2016.

Articles about the mineral named for William Earl Hidden and the role he played in finding rare minerals for commercial use have appeared on a variety of websites in recent years. They include www.geologyscience.com (2023), www.wcnc.com (2022), and  www.blueridgenow.com (2016).

The career of Frank J. Hill was the subject of a 2020 entry on The Bells Must Ring, a blog (www.rutgersbasketballhistory.blogspot.com) devoted to the history of Rutgers University basketball.

A story about John P. Holland was posted on the IrishCentral website (www.irishcentral.com) in February 2024, a year after another article (“Meet the American who launched modern submarines, John Philip Holland, ‘brilliant’ self-taught engineer”) ran on www.foxnews.com. A charter school in Woodland Park, NJ, named for Holland serves pre-K-8 students in the Paterson area.

A legal opinion dealing with the status of fugitive slaves in New Jersey rendered by Joseph C. Hornblower was the basis of an article that appeared in the New Jersey Law Journal in 2018. The “Hornblower Decision,” as it has come to be known, has been posted on numerous websites in recent years.

James Oliver Horton died on Feb. 20, 2017. He was 73.

Emily “Cissy” Houston died on Oct. 7, 2024. She appeared in a Christian drama entitled God’s Not Dead: A Light in Darkness in 2018 and in a documentary on the life of her daughter Whitney the same year. Also in 2018, she was given a key to the city by Newark’s mayor and a street was named in her honor outside the New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, where she served as musical director for many years.

Several documentaries and two films on the life and career of Whitney E. Houston have been released since her death. Whitney, a documentary released in 2018, was nominated for a Grammy Award for best music film of the year. Singles and albums of her music continue to be released posthumously. Her daughter, Bobbi Kristina Brown, died in 2015.

Frank L. Howley was mentioned in a www.historynet.com article (“Berlin Remained a Battleground even after Nazi Defeat”) posted online in July 2020.

Charles Evans Hughes was featured prominently in the 2016 book The First Modern Clash over Federal Power: Wilson versus Hughes in the Presidential Election of 1916.” The National Constitution Center posted an article about his career on its blog in April 2023, while the Free Speech Center at Middle Tennessee State University ran a piece about him on its website in August 2023. The Charles Evan Hughes Memorial Foundation closed its door in 2022 after giving out more than $30 million to good causes over six decades.

The middle name of William Tallmage Hunt was missing a “d” in The Famous, The Familiar and The Forgotten: 350 Notable Newarkers. The correct spelling is “Tallmadge.”

Several publications in recent years have run brief mentions linking John Wesley Hyatt to the invention of the synthetic billiard ball. One in great detail (“Imitation Ivory and the Power of Play”) appeared online (www.invention.si.edu) in February of 2018 under the banner of the Smithsonian’s Lemelson Center.

Anthony Imperiale Jr., the son and namesake of Anthony M. Imperiale, died on April 22, 2018. He was 61.

The secret life of Laura Ingalls was the subject of a piece on the HistoryNet website (www.history.com) in 2021 and then on one of its podcasts two years later. On July 11, 2023, she was profiled on a website called This Day in Aviation (www.thisdayinaviation.com ).

Presentations from literary scholars and historians for a symposium on Washington Irving that was scheduled for 2020 but canceled because of the pandemic were compiled in a book and published in 2022. It was entitled Rip Van Winkle’s Republic: Washington Irving in History and Memory. “Sunnyside,” Irving’s home in Tarrytown, NY, and a national historic landmark, is operated as a museum and open to the public, while the Washington Irving Society remains active.

Jerry Izenberg was inducted into the Boxing Hall of Fame in 2016, the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 2016 and the New Jersey Hall of Fame in 2019. He has also continued writing books, including one about growing up in Newark that was published in 2023 along with a remembrance of Larry Doby in 2024. His streak of covering consecutive Super Bowls since the inaugural game ended in 2020 at 53.

Sharpe James published his second memoir (A Sharpe View) in 2023 and had a book signing at the Robert Treat Hotel in Newark. He also attempted to return to public office by running for Newark City Council in the municipal election of 2022 but was ruled off the ballot by the city clerk because of his criminal convictions. Nonetheless, he garnered the highest number of write-in votes.

The family-owned newspaper of Vasco S. Jardim was profiled on Newest Americans, a website (www.newestamericans.com) unveiled in 2014 that is the work of a self-proclaimed “multimedia collaboratory” consisting of several organizations with links to Rutgers-Newark. Vasco’s son Edward, who followed in his father’s footsteps in the newspaper business, died on July 15, 2017.

Wyclef Jean has stayed busy releasing singles, mixtapes and an album in 2019 (Wyclef Goes Back to School, vol. 1) as well as touring and appearing on TV shows. He was inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame in 2017 and nominated for an MTV Award in 2020.

The furniture of John Jeliff has continued selling at auction and in antique galleries all over the country.

The home on Elwood Avenue in Forest Hill where Maria Jeritza once lived was put on the market in 2023 and sold for $670,000.

Jotham “Jo” Johnson, son of Jotham Johnson and a longtime administrator at Princeton University, his and his father’s alma mater, died in 2022 in New Jersey.

Michael B. Jordan has become a major entertainment figure, appearing in movies, on TV, in music videos and in video games. Most prominently, he starred in three Creed movies between 2015 and 2023.  He has been nominated for and won many acting awards, including those given by the NAACP, the Screen Actors Guild and local film critics associations.

Maj. Gen. Philip Kearny Jr. was inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame in 2017, while a biography of him by Civil War historian William B. Styple that was in the works for years was published in 2022. Two articles about Kearny were posted on websites in February 2024—one with previously published material on the Arlington National Cemetery website (www.arlingtoncemetery.net) and the other on a website for the Third New Jersey Regiment (www.3nj.org ). Another story appeared in 2022 on the website www.historynet.com., while a fourth article was published on the anniversary of his death in 2020 on www.emergingcivilwar.com.

Maj. Gen. Stephen W. Kearny was played by Jed Brophy in a 2018 docudrama miniseries entitled The Men Who Built America: Frontiersmen that initially aired on the History Channel in 2018. He has also been mentioned in two recent books by noted historians: Dream of El Dorado: A History of the American West by H.W. Brands (2019) and The Apache Wars: The Hunt for Geronimo, the Apache Kid, and the Captive Boy Who Started the Longest War in American History by Paul Andrew Hutton (2016).

The life and career of Jerome Kern, focusing on his years in Newark, were explored in a program presented at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark in 2018. His songs continue to be recorded, particularly by jazz musicians.

The foundation established in the name of Dr. Henry H. Kessler in 1985 has continued working on behalf of people with disabilities and special needs. In 2022, it launched an autism research center. The foundation maintains offices in East Hanover and West Orange, NJ.

A biography of Allen Klein (The Man Who Bailed Out the Beatles, Made the Stones, and Transformed Rock & Roll) was published in 2015. The same year, he was mentioned prominently in the book Baby You’re a Rich Man: Suing the Beatles for Fun and Profit. In recent years, Klein’s relationships with the Beatles and its individual members have been the subject of numerous articles and interviews, some that have appeared in print and others that were broadcast.

Marie and Rosetta, a musical about the collaboration between Marie Knight and Sister Rosetta Tharpe, has been produced at theaters around the country, including off Broadway, and also written about since it was first performed in 2016. “I Thought I Told You Not to Tell Them,” a song recorded by Knight in 1958, was chosen one of “350 Jersey Songs” by the website NJArts.net when New Jersey celebrated its 350^th anniversary in 2014.

Despite years of publicly avoiding discussion of his sexuality, Edward I. Koch was identified as a closeted gay man by The New York Times in a 2022 article.

A signed, first-edition of a 1939 book by Benny Goodman and Irving Kolodin that had been in the collection of Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts was put up for auction online by Christie’s in London in 2023. Several other Goodman items were included in the lot. The winning bid was for more than 2,000 pounds (around $2,500).

Adolf F. Konrad was remembered by artist Chris Carter, one of his students, on her blog (www.explorewithchristcarter.com) in July 2023 His work has continued to be put up for sale by auction houses and online art galleries.

Krementz & Co., the jewelry firm founded by George Krementz, was the subject of an article (“Krementz Jewelry—Over 150 Years of Brilliant History”) that was posted on www.dsfantiquejewelry.com in January 2022. The company was also profiled in 2015 on the Material Matters website (www.sites.udel.edu) run by a master’s degree program based at the Winterthur Museum in Delaware.

The mansion that Gottfried E. Krueger built on High Street in 1888, which sat abandoned for many years, was finally restored and reopened as a business incubator/retail space in 2023. It also hosts public events.

Frederick B. Lacey died on April 1, 2017. He was 96. His passing was noted with an executive order from then-Gov. Chris Christie directing that both American and New Jersey flags throughout the state be flown at half-mast.

The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics has continued to give an award named in part for David Lasser. The Gardner-Lasser Aerospace History Literature Award is handed out for the “best original contribution to the field of aeronautical or astronautical non-fiction literature published in the last five years dealing with the science, technology, and/or impact of aeronautics or astronautics on society.”

A biographical sketch of Josephine Lawrence was included in the third edition of Newark’s Literary Lights that was published in 2016.

Frederick R. Lehlbach was listed as one of 100 notable alumni of New York Law School on the website www.edurank.org.

Barry Lenson, son of Michael Lenson, wrote a book about his father that was published in 2020, and he maintains a website in his father’s name. Also in 2020, a study for a mural of Lenson’s in a West Virginia post office was included in an exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. A solo retrospective of Lenson’s works had several stops in New Jersey in 2016.

Jerry Lewis died on Aug. 20, 2017. He was 91. In 2015, he was given the National Association of Broadcasters Award for distinguished service and a Casino Entertainment Legend Award. His final film was Max Rose released in 2016.

Mgsr. William J. Linder died on June 8, 2018. He was 82.

The papers of Mort Lindsey were donated to Columbia University’s Rare Books and Manuscript Library by his family in 2014.

Wynona M. Lipman was inducted into the New Jersey Equal Justice Library and Archive Circle of Honor in 2017. In 2023, the New Jersey Historical Society in Newark mounted an exhibit and hosted a program focusing on the impact of her life, while a documentary on her life and career has been in the works.

A short profile of Harold Lockwood appeared on the Travalanche website (www.travsd.wordpress.com ) in 2020. Lockwood was mentioned as among the more prominent victims of the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918 during the recent COVID pandemic.

An article about Nicholas Longworth was posted on the Cincinnati History blog (www.cincinnatihistory.org ) in January 2020. Tim Burke, a retired history teacher who authored the piece, called Longworth “the most interesting man to ever grace Cincinnati’s streets.” There was also an article on Longworth that appeared on The Cincinnati Enquirer website (www.cincinnati.com) in 2018.

Savoy Records, the label founded in Newark by Herman Lubinsky, was acquired by Concord Bicycle Music in 2017. His grandson, Terry James “TJ” Lubinsky, has continued producing PBS music specials and staying involved in other TV and radio projects.

A biography of Dominic N. “Nick Lucas” Lucanese (Nick Lucas: The Crooning Troubadour and His Guitar) by Michael R. Pitts was published by McFarland Books in 2023. Lucas has had a website dedicated to his life and career posted online in recent years (www.nicklucas.com). A vintage “Nick Lucas” Gibson guitar can sell for thousands of dollars.

Robert Ludlum had another movie in the Bourne series based on his novels released in 2016. It was entitled Jason Bourne and starred Matt Damon. Two more Bourne films are under discussion.

The birthday of Bertram “Bert” Lytell was marked in 2016 with a small article on the Travalanche website (www.travsd.wordpress.com).

Clara Maass was inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame in 2017. An article about her (“Clara Maass, the Nurse Who Gave Her Life in the Name of Science”) was posted on the website www.historynet.com in 2020. Another story about her appeared on the website www.nurseslab.com in 2018 (updated in 2021). Also in 2018, officials at the hospital named for her in Belleville, NJ, gathered at her burial site in Newark to remember her on what was the 117^th anniversary of her birth.

The Negro Leagues Centennial Edition of a biography of Effa Manley published in 2020 was an updated version of the original from 1998. Manley was mentioned prominently in the 2019 book The Newark Eagles Take Flight: The Story of the 1946 Negro League Champions published by the Society for American Baseball Research. It was written and edited by the group’s members. Manley has also been the subject of any number of articles and podcasts in recent years. Two of the better ones were a story by noted sports journalist Claire Smith that appeared on the Andscape website in July 2020 and “How the Only Woman in Baseball Hall of Fame Challenged Convention—and MLB” published on www.history.com in September 2021 (updated May 2023).

James J. Mapes was mentioned in the 1,500-page “History of Soyfoods and Soybeans in California (1851-1982)” posted on www.soyinfocenter.com in 2021.

Bernard “Bernie” Marcus died on Nov. 4, 2024. He published a book entitled Kick up Some Dust: Lessons on Thinking Big, Giving Back and Doing it Yourself” in 2022. He has continued giving away large chunks of his fortune, especially to Jewish, veterans and medical causes, including $25 million to a blood services center in Israel in 2016. A staunch Republican, Marcus has also been a major donor to the three presidential campaigns of Donald J. Trump.

The research on sports-related brain injuries that Dr. Harrison S. Martland championed in the 1920s has made great strides in recent years with advances in technology and renewed interest, primarily as the popularity of football has grown. An article about Martland’s pioneering work in this area was published in the January 2018 edition of Brain: A Journal of Neurology. The Newark History Society presented a program on Martland’s life and career in 2022.

The Peach Basket Society listed Seymour “Swede” Masin and his basketball accomplishments on its blog in March 2018. A movie of Philip Roth’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel American Pastoral, which had its main character inspired by Masin, was released in 2016. The character of “Seymour ‘Swede’ Levov” was played by Ewan McGregor.

A story about Sherman L. “Jocko” Maxwell was published on www.mlb.com, the official website of Major League Baseball, in February 2024. Another article had appeared on www.blackpast.org in June 2016.

Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, once one of the highest ranking members of the Catholic Church in the U.S., was banished from the clergy in 2018 on longstanding and multiple allegations of sexual misconduct. He was also sued for sexual abuse and accused criminally but was later found incompetent to stand trial on those charges.

Thomas N. McCarter got prominent mention in a Newark History Society program (www.newarkhistorysociety.org) in January 2023 that was entitled “Thomas McCarter, Trolleys, and Building Newark’s Streetcar Suburbs.” An original copy of a speech that he gave at the Mosque Theatre in Newark on the 100^th anniversary of the adoption of the city’s charter (April 5, 1936) was displayed in 2016 on the www.newarksattic.blog. Also pictured on the blog was a medal commemorating the centennial.

A story about Walter McDougall and his cartoons (“The Man Who Filled Newspapers with Monsters”) was published on the Mental Floss website in 2016. In 2014, he was mentioned in the book Insider Histories of Cartooning: Rediscovering Forgotten Famous Comics and Their Creators by Robert C. Harvey. McDougall’s work has been preserved and is sometimes displayed by the Ohio State University Cartoon Research Library.

Rachel K. McDowell was mentioned in Brooke Kroeger’s 2023 book Undaunted: How Women Changed American Journalism.

In 2022, The Walt Whitman Archive (www.whitmanarchive.org) posted to its website a letter asking a favor that William O. McDowell had sent to Whitman in August 1891. In 2015, the Theodore Roosevelt Center at Dickinson State University (www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org ) also posted a McDowell letter online, this one to Roosevelt and President William Howard Taft in 1912. The Texas chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution mentioned McDowell in its summer 2023 newsletter, as had the quarterly newsletter of the Ponce de Leon Inlet Lighthouse Preservation Association in 2015.

A biography of Joseph J. “Iron Man” McGinnity was posted in 2016 on the website (www.1901mlb.wordpress.com ), which is dedicated to documenting the Major League Baseball season of 1901. An article about him, with a photo of his final resting spot, was published in his hometown newspaper in McAlester, OK, in 2019.

The tavern bearing his name that Frank J. McGovern opened on New Street in downtown Newark in 1938 was closed down for more than a year for renovation and expansion before reopening in 2019.

Pieces played on the Hammond B-3 organ by James H. “Jimmy” McGriff were included on two compilation albums released in 2019 – Supa Cookin’ and Organ Giants.

A scholarship fund set up in the names of Francis J. “Frank” Mertz and his wife has continued providing financial aid to students from eight high schools in New Jersey studying at Fairleigh Dickinson University’s Madison and Teaneck campuses. He was mentioned in one of the timelines printed in the fall 2017 edition of FDUMagazine that commemorated the school’s 75-year history.

Samuel C. Miller left money to The Newark Museum of Art that was placed in the general fund for acquisitions.

Anthony S. “Skippy” Minisi was mentioned in a 2020 analysis of the University of Pennsylvania’s NFL draft picks over the years that appeared in the school’s student newspaper.

The Blue Note recordings of Henry E. “Hank” Mobley were released on a multi-disc set by Mosaic Records in 2020. That same year, the first livestream video broadcast in the Live from Van Gelder Studio series paid tribute to him. In 2019, Mobley was inducted into the DOWNBEAT Hall of Fame.

The work of James Moody has been featured on two albums and four compilation albums since 2016. The James Moody Jazz Festival, started in 2012, remains a staple of the fall entertainment offerings at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark.

Melba Moore had a street named for her in Newark in 2023.

Thomas Moran had a painting of his auctioned off by the Newark Museum of Art in 2021, one of a number of works by American masters sold in what was a major and controversial deaccession of the museum’s pieces.

The foundation set up by Charles Stewart Mott that bears his name has continued issuing grants globally and across a variety of program areas, including civil society, education, environment and bettering the future of Flint, MI.

Essex County began cleaning up the site around the statue of Franklin Murphy in Weequahic Park in 2023. Plans are in discussion to refurbish the statue.

David Wildstein’s New Jersey Globe website recounted the political history of Vincent J. Murphy in a September 2023 article.

Don “Newk” Newcombe died on Feb. 19, 2019. He was 92. He was inducted into the Shrine of the Eternals of the Baseball Reliquary, an educational organization, in 2016 and, three years later, was named a member of the inaugural class of the Legends of Dodger Baseball.

John K. “Jack” Northrop has been the subject of any number of online articles in recent years. Among them were “The Life and Times of US Aviation Pioneer Jack Northrop” in February 2022 on www.simpleflying.com; “A Look Back at Northrop Flying Wings – Part 1” in 2021 on the website (www.afmc.af.mil) of the Air Force Materiel Command; “Jack Northrop and the Flying Wing Design” in November 2017 on www.scihi.org; “Jack Northrop and the Flying Wing” on the website of Air & Space Forces Magazine (www.airandspaceforces.com) in December 2016; “Jack Northrop’s ‘Flying Ram’” on www.historynet.com in October 2016, and “Jack Northrop and the UFO-Lookin’ Flying Wings” in November 2011 on the Popular Science website (www.popsci.com). A public school named for him in Lancaster, CA, has continued educating students in grades K-5.

The Institut Pasteur in France mentioned Dr. William O’Gorman in an article published on its website in July 2023 (www.pasteur.fr) that cited instances of scientific exchanges it has enjoyed with the United States over the years.

An article about Hazel R. O’Leary was posted on www.blackamericaweb.com in January 2018 under the title “Little Known Black History Fact: Hazel O’Leary.” She was also included in a story “Before Kamala: Black Women in Presidential Administrations” posted on www.rediscovering-black-history.blogs.archives.gov in January 2021.

Shaquille “Shaq” O’Neal was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2016. Since his retirement from the NBA, he has been all over the airwaves selling products as diverse as car insurance, pizza and pain relief medication, promoting some of his own businesses and commenting on basketball games. He has made numerous appearances on TV shows and in video games and also appeared in four movies between 2018 and 2020. Among his other recent ventures, he cut his fourth album, created a music festival, bought his own jet and got caught up in the FTX cryptocurrency exchange scandal.

The Warren Street School in Newark, designed by Jeremiah O’Rourke and built in 1891, was demolished by the New Jersey Institute of Technology in 2021 to make way for an apartment-like residence hall. In its later years, the school focused on teaching American history under the supervision of historian Clement A. Price.

Franklin Pangborn was included in the 2018 book The Name Below the Title: 65 Classic Movie Characters from Hollywood’s Golden Age. There was also an essay about him in 2015 on Outspoken & Freckled, a film instructor’s blog.

Maj. Gen. James “Galloping Jim” Parker was mentioned in chapter 5 (“Mexico and the Approach of War”) of the 2021 book Diplomat in Khaki: Major General Frank Ross McCoy and American Foreign Policy, 1898-1949.

Dr. Aaron E. Parsonnet was mentioned in a May 2022 article celebrating Jewish American Heritage Month that was published on the website of the Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest NJ (www.jfedgmw.org).

Dr. Victor Parsonnet (born August 29, 1924) passed away on December 23, 2024 at age 100.

The Essex County Schools of Technology named after Donald M. Payne Sr. opened in Newark in 2018. His son, Donald M. Payne Jr., has continued serving in the seat his father once held in the U.S. House of Representatives.

The illustrations and paintings of Lute Pease have continued to sell at auction and on online sales sites.

The U.S. Department of the Interior and NASA still give annual awards in the name of William T. Pecora. They go to individuals and teams “using satellite or aerial remote sensing that make outstanding contributions toward understanding the Earth, educating the next generation of scientists, informing decision makers or supporting natural or human-induced disaster response.”

The Peddie School, a prestigious private school in Hightstown, NJ, named after Thomas B. Peddie, has continued giving its highest award in his honor.

William Pennington was portrayed in an unfavorable light as Speaker of the House of Representatives in an article in Roll Call (www.rollcall.com) posted online in October 2015. He was mentioned in a similar context in an Insider NJ story (www.insidernj.com) in January 2023, while Politico (www.politico.com ) marked his passing in 2016 on the anniversary of the day he died.

Joseph F. “Joe” Pesci had announced his retirement from acting but returned to the screen in a 2016 documentary about the life of singer “Little Jimmy” Scott and in several films. In the most prominent one, The Irishman from 2019, he had a featured role and earned Oscar, BAFTA and Screen Actors Guild nominations. In 2023, he appeared in a cable TV comedy series. Also a musician, he released his third studio album in 2019.

Rev. Abraham Pierson was mentioned in a timeline of the First Congregational Church of Greenwich (CT) that gets updated annually and is posted online. He is remembered on one of the church’s stained-glass windows, and his name appears on a number of online family trees.

Marquis D. “Bo” Porter became a TV broadcaster for the Washington Nationals in 2019. He opened the Bo Porter Academy in Texas in 2022, a private college prep school for middle and high school students with an interest in baseball.

The memory of Napolean W. “Teddy” Powell was revived with the death in 2023 of music industry legend Clarence Avant, who got his start in the music business working for Powell in Newark.

The educational institute that Clement A. Price founded at Rutgers-Newark was named for him in 2015. A year later, the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers-Newark opened a small jazz club named in his honor inside a former insurance building-turned dormitory. In 2022, the inaugural “Clement A. Price/Olmstead Lecture” sponsored by the Branch Brook Park Alliance was held at the Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart in Newark, NJ.

Updated information on Rabbi Joachim Prinz can be found on a personal website set up in his name. His son Jonathan posts entries on the site.

The 1961 album Heavy Soul by Ike Quebec was re-released in 2019 by Blue Note Records in its Classic Vinyl Reissue Series.

Queen Latifah was given a BET Lifetime Achievement Award in 2021. Four years earlier, the American Black Film Festival had recognized her work with an Entertainment Icon award. Rutgers University awarded her an honorary doctorate in 2018, while Harvard University gave her a W.E.B. DuBois Medal in 2019. The Library of Congress added her first studio album (All Hail the Queen) to the National Recording Registry in 2023. She has also starred in the TV series The Equalizer and in appeared on the TV program Finding Your Roots in 2020.

Bernard Rabin was mentioned in an article entitled “The Rich History of Art in Greater MetroWest” that was posted on the website www.jfedgmw.org in January 2024.

Ralph Rainger has continued to have his composition “Easy Living” played in revivals of the musical Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill.

New Jersey Globe (www.newjerseyglobe.com) and The Bergen Record (www.northjersey.com) ran online stories about Oliver Randolph in January 2024 and February 2023 respectively. The Garden State Bar Association has continued giving out an award in his honor each year in recognition of his work on behalf of civil rights.

The Radio Pathfinder, a 1922 book by Richard H. Ranger, was reprinted in 2018 by Forgotten Books. In 2023, he was mentioned in “When and Who Invented the Fax Machine? A Brief History of Faxing,” an article that was posted on the website www.taxburner.com.

Willie Ratner was mentioned in a 2017 Forbes article about whether owning a one-of-a-kind Honus Wagner baseball card or stock in Apple was the better investment. Ratner was the card’s original owner. Among other outlets to write about the card was The Society for American Baseball Research in 2014. Ratner was given a biographical sketch in the 2016 edition of Newark’s Literary Lights.

The recreation and athletic center named for Richard J. “The Cat” Regan on the campus of Seton Hall University in South Orange was renovated, expanded and reopened in 2014 at a cost of millions of dollars.

William C. “Billy” Reick was mentioned in the 2023 book Battle of Ink and Ice: A Sensational Story of News Barons, North Pole Explorers and the Making of Modern Media, a book The New York Times reviewed.

Jehudah Reinharz co-authored the third and final volume of a biography of Chaim Weizmann, Israel’s first president, in 2021 (with a full-length biography in English in the works). It won a major award in Israel. With two others, Reinharz edited a book in Hebrew on Israel as both a Jewish and democratic state in 2023. At least a couple of his other books have been translated and released in English in recent years. He was elected chairman of the International Board of the Weizmann Institute in Israel in 2017 and served for three years, remaining on the board thereafter.

Riker Danzig, the law firm founded in Newark by Adrian Riker and his brother, celebrated its 140^th anniversary in 2022. Also in 2022, The New Jersey Law Journal named Riker Danzig its “Law Firm of the Year.”

The woodcuts of Louis G. “Luigi” Rist have continued selling on online auctions and in gallery sales, usually for $2,000-$3,000.

Through video clips and their movies, the Ritz Brothers have continued to generate laughs. A book about them (The Ritz Brothers: The Films, Television Shows and Other Career Highlights of the Famous Comedy Trio) by Roy Liebman was published in 2021. They also get remembered in articles. Among those in recent years were: “Puttin’ on the Ritz” posted on www.newsfromme.com in November 2023 that included a YouTube retrospective of their career, and “Funniest Man Ever Was . . . Harry Ritz! Just Ask Mel Brooks” posted in August 2015 on www.thedailybeast.com.

The Rev. Lawrence C. Roberts was one of those featured in the 2021 book Peace Be Still: How James Cleveland and the Angelic Choir Created a Gospel Classic.

Peter W. Rodino Jr. was remembered with a chapter in the 2016 ebook and new paperback release of Ordinary Heroes and American Democracy written by noted political scientist Gerald M. Pomper. The Seton Hall Law School archives have continued operating as the Rodino Center.

Narciso Rodriguez marked the 20^th anniversary of his fragrance line in 2023. An article about the dress he designed for Michelle Obama for her husband’s second inauguration appeared in the January 2017 issue of Vogue.

Philip M. Roth died on May 22, 2018. In March of 2023, the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark held a three-day festival that explored his life and literary legacy. His book Sabbath’s Theater was adapted into a play starring John Turturro that ran off-Broadway in New York in 2023. He died at the age of 85 without having won the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Eva Marie Saint turned 100 on July 4, 2024. She appeared at the Academy Awards ceremony in 2018 to present the Oscar for best costume design.

Isadore “Dore” Schary and his grandson, Jeremy Zimmer, were cited as one of the 25 most important families in the history of Hollywood in a September 2017 Vanity Fair article. He’s also been mentioned in two books in recent years: High Noon: The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American Classic (2017) and From Shtetl to Stardom: Jews and Hollywood (2016).

John Scher is no longer the high-profile concert promoter he once was, though his company, now called Metropolitan Entertainment Consultants, LLC, still produces shows. He was featured in two documentaries on the 1999 Woodstock festival that he co-promoted. One in 2021 was on HBO (Woodstock ’99: Peace, Love, and Rage) aired as part of the Music Box series. The other was a three-part Netflix documentary from 2022 entitled Trainwreck: Woodstock ‘99. In 2023, Scher won a Best of Los Angeles Award.

Frederick R. “Ted” Schroeder was ranked the 116^th best tennis player of all time (men and women) on The Tennis Abstract blog in 2022.

Treasure hunters are still looking for the millions of dollars that Dutch Schultz reportedly buried in a specially-made safe somewhere in upstate New York. The search was the subject of TV programs in 2020 and 2022 and an Albany newspaper article in 2021.

Whenever the 1932 kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby receives public attention, it usually includes mention of H. Norman Schwarzkopf Sr., superintendent of the N.J. State Police at the time and the crime’s chief investigator. He has been mentioned as well in stories about American involvement in the Middle East, where Schwarzkopf served as a military commander. One such article was entitled “WWII weapons in the Ayatollah’s Iran” that was posted in October 2016 on www.wwiiafterwwii.wordpress.com.

An article about James V. “Little Jimmy” Scott (“Shelved: Jimmy Scott’s Falling in Love is Wonderful”) was posted on the Longreads website in November 2018.

In 2015, he was not mentioned during the “In Memoriam” segment of the 57th Grammy Awards broadcast, a snub that sparked some controversy. Shortly after Scott’s death in 2014, a portion of a street in Cleveland was named in his honor.

The daughter of Louise Scott, the Rev. Louise Scott-Rountree, was elected to the Newark City Council in 2022.

The Scudder Association Foundation cited Wallace M. Scudder as one of its early presidents in an article published on its website in January 2024. The foundation is a philanthropic organization that was founded in 1912 and later incorporated as a nonprofit. The Newark Museum of Art has continued making acquisitions with money from the Wallace M. Scudder Bequest Fund.

Woody Herman Shaw Jr. has both a website and Facebook page. In 2023, his image was included on a mural painted along the wall of a building adjacent to Newark’s Symphony Hall and his debut album (Blackstone Legacy) was reissued on vinyl a half-century after its release. Three years earlier, his final studio album (49^th Parallel) was reissued after being out of print for 25 years. All About Jazz chose Shaw as its musician of the day on December 24, 2021, the day on which he was born in 1944.

An article about Happy New Year, the least known Broadway musical of Burton “Burt” Shevelove, appeared on the website of author and theater aficionado Ron Fassler (www.ronfassler.medium.com) in January 2019. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, perhaps his best known musical, has continued to be produced in revivals, including at the Two River Theater in Red Bank, NJ, in 2015. MasterVoices, a symphonic choir, performed a stage concert of The Frogs, another collaboration of Shevelove and Stephen Sondheim, at one of New York’s Lincoln Center theaters in November 2023.

Wayne Shorter, jazz saxophonist and composer, died on March 2, 2023. He was 89. In his later years, he received many honors to add to his Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, including a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2016, the Polar Music Prize in 2017 and recognition from the Kennedy Center in 2018.

Paul Simon was named one of the 100 greatest songwriters of all time by Rolling Stone magazine in 2015 and then embarked on what he said was going to be a farewell concert tour three years later. Between 2016 and 2023, he released the albums Stranger to Stranger, In the Blue Light and Seven Psalms, the last of which was nominated for a Grammy Award for best folk album.

The spotlight has continued shining brightly on Naomi Sims. Women’s Wear Daily looked back on her life and career in a February 2021 online article entitled “Naomi Sims’ Legacy: Entrepreneurship, Inclusion and Black is Beautiful.” Essence ran an updated article about her in October 2020. That was the same year that www.blacklistedculture.com published its Sims story. The website www.blackpast posted a piece about her in 2017, as did www.mississippiencyclopedia.org, while an online story about Sims’ cosmetic business appeared in March 2022 on www.makeupmuseumorg. Sims was also the subject of an exhibit at an art space in Pittsburgh in 2023.

A story about Carrie Louise Smith was published in August 2016 on the From the Vaults blog.

Willie “The Lion” Smith was the subject of articles published on the websites of The Jewish News of Northern California in November 2023, the Harlem World Magazine in November 2020 and The Syncopated Times in September 2018.

A piece about an album he did with drummer Jo Jones (The Lion and the Tiger) appeared on the website The Art Music Lounge in November 2018. Also that year, JazzProfiles reposted on its website (www.jazzprofiles.blogspot.com) an article featuring Smith from years earlier.

The NYU Law School has continued giving out the Frank H. Sommer Memorial Award at convocation in recognition of “exceptional distinction in scholarship and professional excellence.”

The Westmoreland Museum of American Art in Pennsylvania announced in 2022 it had acquired a painting by Angelique Marie “Lilly” Martin Spencer entitled Still Life with Apples (1891) for its permanent collection. That same year, it was mentioned in a Newark History Society program that Spencer had exhibited her paintings at the Newark Industrial Exhibition of 1872. An exhibition of her paintings in Columbus, Ohio, in 2015 was given write-ups on the Ohio History Connection website and in the Columbus daily newspaper.

Dick Stabile was profiled in September 2015 on The Vintage Bandstand website (www.vintagebandstand.blogspot.com ) in a series that focuses on “lesser-known bandleaders.” A vintage “Dick Stabile” saxophone can sell for hundreds of dollars.

In the Heat of the Night, the movie that featured the Academy Award-winning performance of Rodney S. “Rod” Steiger, was released in three different formats for home viewing between 2019 and 2022. They included new material. A song entitled The Ballad of Rod Steiger was released on YouTube in 2023.

The business school at Seton Hall University named for W. Paul Stillman was ranked #84 for part-time master’s degree students in U.S. News & World Report and was unranked for full-time students. The Princeton Review has named the school’s on-campus MBA program one of the best in the country for many years.

A biography of Horace C. Stoneham (Forty Years a Giant: The Life of Horace Stoneham) was published in 2021. The Society for American Baseball Research included a biographical sketch of him in an article that was posted on its website (www.sabr.org) in 2015. The Stoneham family auctioned off baseball memorabilia from its archives in 2022.

The Society for American Baseball Research posted a biographical sketch of George “Mule” Suttles on its website in 2019 and has periodically updated it. Another biography was published a year later on the website www.blackpast.org. The online library of Lincoln University in Pennsylvania keeps a virtual exhibit on Suttles that includes links to various articles about him.

A remembrance of Lt. Gen. Joseph M. Swing was posted on the website of the West Point Association of Graduates (www.westpointaog.org) in 2015 and on the Pacific Paratrooper website in 2017.

J. Wesley Tann II was included in the book Black Designers in American Fashion published in 2021. He was part of museum exhibitions at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York in 2016 and 2017 and a biographical sketch of him was posted on the website of the digital 383 Design Studio in 2017. A street in Newark was named for Tann in 2014.

A scholarship in the name of Herbert H. Tate Sr. continues to be awarded to minority students at the Rutgers University School of Law in Newark.

George Tice received the Lucie Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Lucie Foundation at Carnegie Hall in 2015. A book of his photographs (Lifework) that were taken between 1953 and 2013 was published in 2022.

Andre Tippett, an All-American defensive end at the University of Iowa, was inducted into College Football Hall of Fame in 2021.

In 2019, David Toma was given the Four Chaplains Memorial Foundation Legion of Honor Gold Medallion for his career in the military and as a Newark detective. The award was then recognized by his hometown of Clark, NJ, which gave him a proclamation for his service.

NJIT News posted a story about George Oakley Totten Jr. on its website in December 2019 (www.news.njit.edu) under the title “That Time When an NJIT Grad Designed the Most Beautiful Buildings in D.C.” In recent years, some of those buildings have been singled out for stories. One was featured in The Washington Post when it was listed for sale at $5.995 million in May 2016; the Atlas Obscura Travel Guide (www.atlastobscura.com) wrote about another (the Warder-Totten House) on its website in 2022; www.househistree.com posted a piece about The Pink Palace on its website in May 2021, and the Congressional Club was the subject of an article on www.theclio.com in November 2020.

Irvine I. Turner received numerous mentions in Bob Curvin’s 2014 book Inside Newark: Decline, Rebellion, and the Search for Transformation.” A clip of Calvin West, Newark’s first Black council member at-large, talking about Turner’s election as Newark’s first Black elected official was posted on www.vimeo.com in 2017.

“Newark Settlers’ Thanksgiving Hymn,” a poem by Frank J. Urquhart, was posted on the www.newarkpoems.org website in November 2016.

Frankie Valli released a Christmas album in 2016 and A Touch of Jazz in 2021. He said he would stop touring in 2023 (but didn’t), the same year he married his fourth wife. A street was named for him in his old neighborhood in North Newark in 2023.

Arthur T. Vanderbilt was featured prominently in a Wesleyan University magazine article about his grandson, Arthur T. Vanderbilt II, published in the December 2014 edition. The younger Vanderbilt is a law school graduate and author who has written more than a dozen books, including a biography of his grandfather. The Arthur T. Vanderbilt Scholarships are still awarded to outstanding Master of Laws students at NYU’s School of Law, where the elder Vanderbilt served as dean for many years.

The Washington Post ran a story about Mina C. Van Winkle in March 2016. A year

later, she was mentioned in a Newark History Society program entitled “Newark and the Women’s Suffrage Movement.”

A never before heard live recording of Sarah L. Vaughan from a club in New Orleans, made when she was 54, was released by Resonance Records in 2016, while the Newark History Society devoted a program to her in November 2018. Vaughan continues to have her name associated with an international jazz vocal competition presented at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark as part of the venue’s annual jazz festival. An image of her was included on a mural painted on the wall of a building adjoining Newark’s Symphony Hall in 2023.

“America the Beautiful” by Samuel A. Ward has continued to be recorded and performed at major public events, the Super Bowl among them, by prominent bands and entertainers, including Jennifer Lopez, Fifth Harmony, Jackie Evancho, Cecile McLorin Salvant and Post Malone. A biography of Katharine Lee Bates, who wrote the poem upon which the song’s lyrics were based, was published in 2017.

The home of the Rev. William Hayes Ward on Abington Street in Newark was featured in a story on the local patch.com website when it was listed for sale at $749,000 in November 2022.

The first Sunday in February has continued to be remembered annually as “Four Chaplains Sunday” at churches and American Legion posts around the country. It honors Rev. John P. Washington and three other chaplains who gave their lives at sea at the same time during World War II so that soldiers could live. St. Stephens Church in Kearny, NJ, where Washington’s was last assigned before heading into war, marks the deaths with a mass. The National Catholic Register was one of the media outlets to post a story on its website (www.ncregister.com) in 2023 on the 80^th anniversary of the incident. Washington was the subject of a story that was posted on the website of The Observer (www.theobserver.com) in Hudson County, NJ, in January 2022.

Leonard I. Weinglass was portrayed by Ben Shenkman in the 2020 movie The Trial of the Chicago 7. An illustrated biography of Weinglass, entitled Len, A Lawyer in History, was published in 2016. It was reviewed in 2017 on www.truthdig.com and in the Journal for the Study of Radicalism in 2019. Following his death and with money from his estate, the National Lawyers Guild began awarding the Leonard I. Weinglass Memorial Fellowship each year to one of its members.

Rutgers Law School in Newark presents a lecture each year named in honor of Joseph Weintraub.

Kean University continues to raise money for scholarships from an annual 5k run named in honor of Nathan “Nat” Weiss.

Peter Westbrook died on Nov. 29, 2024. He was inducted into the International Sports Hall of Fame in 2021. The foundation that he began in 1991 has continued serving young people through a variety of educational, social and athletic programs, including fencing. One of its sponsors is the Heisman Trophy Trust. The success of Westbrook’s work led the National Recreation Foundation to give him the Crawford Prize in 2018. The award recognizes a living person who has “made an extraordinary contribution in advancing recreation programs for youth from disadvantaged circumstances.”

Information on Edward Weston and his company’s vintage products is available on a variety of websites periodically updated, including www.jollinger,com, www.gracesguide.co.uk/Edward_Weston, www.westonmeter.org.uk, www.ethw.org. and www.chemistryworld.com.

The American Funeral Director published a story on its website in May 2019 on the daughter and granddaughter of Charles L. Whigham who took over running his funeral home in Newark following his death. Daughter Carolyn Whigham gave a videotaped oral history to The HistoryMakers website in March 2017 that included mention of her father.

In 2017, Greg Guderian, a librarian at the Newark Public Library, set up a website devoted to William A. Whitehead entitled An attractive presence: The world of William A. Whitehead (www.wawhitehead.net ). He has continued posting articles on the site. Whitehead was also cited in January 2024 article on the website www.monmouthbeachlife.com for being the former owner of a home in Monmouth Beach along the Jersey Shore.

C.K. Williams died on Sept. 20, 2015. He was 78. His final book of poetry, Falling Ill, was published in 2017.

Hubert Williams died on March 10, 2020. He was 80.

Historian Tim Crist published an article about Beatrice Winser in the January 2020 edition of New Jersey Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal. It was entitled “Beatrice Winser: Librarian, Museum Director, and Advocate for Women’s Equality.” The Newark Museum of Art established the Beatrice Winser Award in 2024 to “honor those who not only possess a vision for a better future, but have a demonstrated track record of creating practical change in their communities and advancing equity.”

The cutlery company of Jacob Wiss was remembered with photos and illustrations in an article on www.progress-is-fine.blogspot.com in December 2017. Several months earlier, www.newarksattic.com had a story about the firm, along with illustrations.

The John Paul Jones Cottage Museum, the brainchild of Admiral Jerauld Wright, has continued welcoming tourists in southwest Scotland from April 1^st to the end of each September. The site was the birthplace of Jones, often called “The Father of the American Navy.”

Both Johanna Wright, the widow of Lawrence “Lonnie” Wright, and the couple’s daughter, Jazmine, have been successful high school basketball coaches in New Jersey. Jazmine Wright was a standout player at Syracuse University.

Perspectives on History, the newsmagazine of the American Historical Association, posted a “long overdue” in memoriam piece on Marion Thompson Wright on its website (www.historians.org) in February 2023. It followed a number of other articles about her in recent years. In October 2022, the African American Intellectual History Society published a story about Wright’s connection to the Brown v. Board of Education court decision on its website (www.aaihs.org). Colgate University professor Graham Russell Gao Hodges wrote about Wright in April 2019 on the website www.zocalopublicsquare.org, while another article about her appeared on the website www.blackpast.org in December 2016. Rutgers-Newark has continued presenting the Marion Thompson Wright Lecture Series each February.

Studio and live recordings of Larry Young Jr. that were made for radio broadcast in Paris in the mid-1960s were released by Resonance Records on a two-CD set in 2016. Blue Note Records re-released his album Unity as part of its Classic Vinyl Reissue Series in 2022.

James R. Zazzali and a fellow former N.J. Supreme Court justice were named to the transition team of Phil Murphy after Murphy was elected New Jersey governor in 2017. Their job was to ensure transparency and compliance with state ethics laws. Zazzali was also appointed to lead and help dissolve the nonprofit corporation that oversaw the operation of the Newark watershed after it was found to be riddled with corruption starting in 2010. He has remained Of Counsel to the Gibbons law firm in Newark and stays active with the New Jersey State Bar Association.

Abner “Longy” Zwillman was mentioned in the 2020 book Big Apple Gangsters: The Rise and Decline of the Mob in New York.” That same year, his name appeared in an article (“Joseph Kennedy and the New York Underworld during Prohibition”) posted on the website of The Gotham Center for New York City History (www.gothamcenter.org). In 2019, Zwillman was included among the crime figures cited in the book The Chronicles of the Last Jewish Gangster: From Meyer to Myron.” Exterior shots of his final home (and the place in West Orange, NJ, where he was found dead) were posted online in March 2018 as the “Photos of the Day” on www.placenj.com, while a story about Zwillman was published on www.geocaching.com in February 2017.