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Project on Ethnic Relations, 15 Chambers Street,Princeton 08542-3707. Allen Kassof, president. 609-683-5666; fax,609-683-5888. Home page: www.netcom.com/~ethic/per.html.The Carnegie Corp. has given this private nongovernmental organizationanother $1 million, for total of nearly $5 million in the last 10years. PER also receives funds from the Pew Charitable Trusts to workin central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union to helpmediate ethnic conflicts. In December it will preside at the firstmeeting of the newly elected democratic leaders of Yugoslavia andKosovar Albanians. Alllen H. Kassof, PER president, will preside.Top Of PageManagement MovesNew Jersey Historical Commission, 225 West StateStreet, Box 305, Trenton 08625. Marc Mappen, executive director.609-292-6062;fax, 609-633-8168.Www.state.nj.us/state/history/hisidx.html.Marc Mappen is the new executive director of the commission. Formerlyassociate dean of Rutgers’ University College, he is the author ofa book on Jerseyana and co-founded an electronic forum,”nj_history.”Drinker Biddle & Shanley LLP, 105 College RoadEast, Box 627, Princeton 08542-0627. Jonathan I. Epstein,partner-in-charge of New Jersey office. 609-716-6500; fax,609-799-7000. Home page: www.dbr.com.Jonathan I. Epstein is now the partner in charge of the Princetonoffice of this firm that was founded in Philadelphia. Epstein had beenpart of a three-member management committee with Samuel W. Lambert III(the partner in charge for more than 10 years) and Peter P. Ackourey,who practices out of the Florham Park office.An alumnus of Rutgerslaw school in Camden, Epstein is president elect of the Mercer CountyBar Association and focuses on troubled real estate projects. ThePrinceton office has 107 staff members, including 42 attorneys, andthere are additional offices in District of Columbia, Berwyn,Pennsylvania, and New York.Top Of PageName ChangesNational Workrights Institute, 166 Wall Street,Research Park, Princeton 08540. Lewis Maltby, director.609-683-0313; fax, 609-683-1787.This office, formerly a part of the American Civil Liberties Union,has broken off from that institution and taken a name that moreaccurately reflects its role.Jeremy Gruber, legal director, says that “we had grown to the pointwhere we had felt we could become our own organization.” TheWorkrights Institute focuses exclusively on laborand employment rights issues. Among its recent accomplishments:Helping to pass a genetic discriminationbill in Michigan, which provides protection to all individuals fromanyone who would try to use geneticinformaiton against them.Adds Gruber: “We are the leading organization in the country that doeswork on workplace privacy issues, and one of the only organizations inthe country that does work on Internet E-mail privacy.” As for theACLU, he says, “we’re still cooperating, but we’re not technicallyaffiliated with them.”Top Of PageLeaving TownR. M. Shoemaker Co., 1 Tower Bridge, Suite 1300,West Conshohocken 19428. 610-941-5500.The Pennington Road office of a Pennsylvania-based construction firmhas closed, and calls are being taken by the home office. The companywas working at a job site on Princeton Pike.Pennett Associates, 65 South Main Street, BuildingB, Pennington 08534. Donald J. Pennett Jr., president. 609-737-2705;fax, 609-737-7318.Donald J. Pennett Jr. closed his contracting business and calls arebeing referred to a home address, 215-493-5748 or 1059 Victory Drive,Yardley PA 19067.Corrections or additions?This page is published by PrincetonInfo.com— the web site for U.S. 1 Newspaper in Princeton, New Jersey.
