{"id":715,"date":"2014-02-24T00:29:56","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T00:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpanel-dept2-dev-pupp.princeton.edu\/wp\/?p=715"},"modified":"2025-07-20T15:20:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T15:20:19","slug":"directors-note-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pupp.princeton.edu\/es\/2014\/02\/24\/directors-note-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Director&#8217;s Note &#8211; 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:calc( 100% + 0px );margin-left: calc(-0px \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-0px \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:0px;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:0px;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-spacing-right-medium:0px;--awb-spacing-left-medium:0px;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-spacing-right-small:0px;--awb-spacing-left-small:0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p>PUPP enjoyed an incredibly successful 2013, marked by the graduation of our 10<sup style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">th<\/sup>cohort of PUPP Scholars in June. At graduation, we celebrated the accomplishments of the 24 members of our class of 2013 and gave special recognition to Princeton\u2019s 19<sup style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">th<\/sup>President, Shirley M. Tilghman.\u00a0President Tilghman, who stepped down in June of 2013, was an enthusiastic advocate for PUPP and was our featured guest speaker at each of the first 10 PUPP graduation ceremonies.\u00a0We sent her off on her \u201csabbatical year\u201d with tokens of our appreciation of her leadership, including a PUPP water bottle, a \u201cfavorite\u201d book from the Class of 2013 and hooded sweatshirt from our 2012 Fall College Tour.<\/p>\n<p>Our class of 2013 set a new bar in college admissions \u2013 with three scholars matriculating into Princeton in the fall of 2013, and two each at Wesleyan and the University of Richmond.\u00a0Others enrolled at some of our nation\u2019s most prestigious institutions including, Colgate, Georgetown, Johns Hopkins, Occidental, Rutgers and Swarthmore. The full listing of college commitments is available on the web on the \u201cresults\u201d page under the \u201cabout\u201d tab.<\/p>\n<p>Some general highlights for our <strong>2013-14 school-year<\/strong> include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">Our weekly after school program continues at our 6 partner high school campuses with graduate\u00a0\u00a0 Teaching Fellows engaging our sophomores and juniors in activities to develop their writing and critical communication skills; and<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">Our seniors completed both an SAT and an ACT review series this fall, and are working feverishly alongside our counselor, QuinnShauna Felder-Snipes, to complete their college applications; we\u2019ve already learned of an early action admission to Princeton, an early decision admission to Colgate and about half of our Class of 2014 has been accepted to one or more campus of Rutgers University!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Our <strong>cultural enrichment calendar<\/strong> included trips to two productions this fall:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">In September, we visited McCarter Theatre in Princeton for their production of the Pulitzer Prize winning play, <em>Proof<\/em> by David Auburn; and<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">In October, we traveled to Philadelphia to see the Walnut Street Theater\u2019s production of the Tony Award winning musical <em>In the Heights.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This spring, we have an ambitious calendar of <strong>cultural events<\/strong> including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">August Wilson\u2019s classic, Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, <em>Fences<\/em>, at McCarter Theatre in Princeton;<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">The Pennsylvania Ballet\u2019s 50<sup style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">th<\/sup> Anniversary production of <em>Carmina Burana<\/em> at the historic Academy of Music in Philadelphia;<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">A theatrical adaptation of Jane Austen\u2019s classic novel, <em>Pride and Prejudice,<\/em> at the People\u2019s Light and Theater in Malvern, PA;<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">A world-premier play by Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Paula Vogel titled <em>Don Juan Comes Back from Iraq <\/em>(an updated adaptation of the 1936, post-World War I play Don Juan Returns from the War by \u00d6d\u00f6n von Horv\u00e1th); and<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">We conclude our \u201cseason\u201d with our annual trip to the opera for Mozart\u2019s <em>Don Gionvani<\/em> at Opera Philadelphia at the Academy of Music.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In November 2013, we took 40 of our juniors and seniors on our <strong>annual, three-day fall college tour<\/strong>, with a special extended day for the girls to visit Mt. Holyoke and Smith Colleges.\u00a0Stops for all included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">Yale, Connecticut, Brown, Trinity College, Wesleyan, Vassar, Colgate, Union and Williams;<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">Along the way, we connected with PUPP alumni who are current undergraduates at Brown, Wesleyan, Colgate and Mt. Holyoke;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload alignnone size-full wp-image-718\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27820%27%20height%3D%27450%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20820%20450%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27820%27%20height%3D%27450%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-orig-src=\"http:\/\/www.webpupp2017.deptcpanel.princeton.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/PUPP-Fall-2013-College-Tour_group-photo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"820\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>PUPP Juniors and Seniors on the PUPP Fall 2013 College Tour <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">We continued a new PUPP tradition of a \u201cstudy hall\u201d in a classroom at Brown where we were joined by Tieisha Tift, a member of our class of 2009 from Trenton Central High School who has since earned her bachelor\u2019s degree from Columbia University and is now working with the Brown University chapter of the National College Advising Corps;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload alignnone size-full wp-image-720\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27820%27%20height%3D%27450%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20820%20450%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27820%27%20height%3D%27450%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-orig-src=\"http:\/\/www.webpupp2017.deptcpanel.princeton.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/SL_JK_JH_TT.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"820\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Shadura Lee (TCHS \u201812\/Brown \u201816), PUPP Director Jason Klugman, PUPP Alumni Fellow Jackie Hernandez (TCHS \u201908\/Rutgers \u201812) and Tieisha Tift (TCHS \u201809\/Columbia \u201813) at study hall at Brown <\/strong><strong>\u2013 PUPP Fall 2013 College Tour <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The <strong>thirteenth PUPP summer institute<\/strong> was held from June 22 \u2013 August 9, 2013:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">Our annual Opening Ceremony was held on June 22, 2013, in the University Chapel, complete with our traditional organ prelude and remarks from Dean of the College, Valerie Smith;We held our annual 2-day leadership retreat at the Princeton Blairstown Center which helps set the tone for the summer and challenges scholars to reach outside their comfort zones;<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">Our thematic focus was Islam and the Middle East, with each cohort reading a different novel from Khaled Hosseni, author of <em>The Kite Runner<\/em>, and all scholars reading Marjane Satropi\u2019s graphic novel <em>Persepolis<\/em>, which tells her story of growing up during in Tehran during the Islamic Revolution (we also watched the movie version of <em>Persepolis<\/em> as part of our summer studies);<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">Our focus on Islam led us to visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art\u2019s Islamic Collection and took us for a half-day visit to the Islamic Society of Central Jersey;<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">For the first time, we had a \u201cnon-Princeton\u201d Teaching Assistant \u2013 PUPP alumna Leslie Castrejon from Princeton High School who is currently at junior at Bryn Mawr College worked with our rising seniors, opening a new avenue for PUPP alumni to engage with current scholars.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It continues to be incredibly satisfying to work closely with our current scholars as they develop their academic potential and begin to imagine themselves as college students and graduates. \u00a0 An interesting twist in our work this year was the emergence of a concentration of PUPP scholar-athletes. \u00a0 For years we have had a handful of varsity athletes in the program in the full range of high school sports \u2013 basketball, baseball, softball, wrestling, swimming, track and field, soccer and more. Some of our alumni go on to compete in college \u2013 we\u2019ve had track athletes at Georgetown, the College of New Jersey, Notre Dame and Dickinson. \u00a0 This year, we had a concentration of football players in PUPP \u2013 almost enough for a full offensive or defensive side! \u00a0 One of the football players, Micheal Whittington, was recently featured in a local news <a style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\" href=\"\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/PUPP-scholar-from-TCHS-makes-a-case-for-himself.pdf\">article<\/a> highlighting both his academic and athletic accomplishments. (And, his coach at Trenton Central High School, Tarig Holman, has been a member of the PUPP summer faculty for the past 6 years!)<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve helped our scholars turn their dreams into reality, and to dream new dreams. \u00a0 And, we could not do it without the continued support of Princeton University, its alumni and our local corporate and foundation supporters.<\/p>\n<p>If you have questions or comments about PUPP, or want to learn more about what we are doing, please take a look at our website \u2013 <a style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\" href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141011141554\/https:\/\/pupp.princeton.edu\/\">https:\/\/pupp.princeton.edu<\/a> \u2013 and click on the PowerPoint presentation highlighted on the \u201cNews\u201d section of homepage. \u00a0 As always, feel free to reach out to me directly at <a style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\" href=\"mailto:jklugman@princeton.edu\">jklugman@princeton.edu<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p>Warm regards,<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload alignnone wp-image-723\" src=\"http:\/\/www.webpupp2017.deptcpanel.princeton.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Dr-k-signature.png\" data-orig-src=\"http:\/\/www.webpupp2017.deptcpanel.princeton.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Dr-k-signature.png\" width=\"220\" height=\"80\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27220%27%20height%3D%2780%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20220%2080%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27220%27%20height%3D%2780%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/pupp.princeton.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Dr-k-signature-200x73.png 200w, https:\/\/pupp.princeton.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Dr-k-signature-300x110.png 300w, https:\/\/pupp.princeton.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Dr-k-signature-400x146.png 400w, https:\/\/pupp.princeton.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Dr-k-signature.png 416w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><br \/>\nJason R. Klugman, Ph.D.<\/p>\n<p>Director<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-directors-note"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pupp.princeton.edu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pupp.princeton.edu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pupp.princeton.edu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pupp.princeton.edu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pupp.princeton.edu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=715"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pupp.princeton.edu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2336,"href":"https:\/\/pupp.princeton.edu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions\/2336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pupp.princeton.edu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pupp.princeton.edu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pupp.princeton.edu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}