Marue Walizer, Princeton
Betsy Kalber Baglio, who is running for a seat on the Princeton Board of Education, was my student at Princeton University 20 years ago. She was a member of my senior seminar in education and student teaching in Hopewell simultaneously.
Sometimes you just know that a person is a natural. While teaching requires the development of a complex set of skills and a knowledge base that far exceeds that of many professions, Betsy came with a character and personality that was just about perfect for the work. She is intelligent, cheerful, hardworking, and committed to improving the educational community.
She did outstanding work as a student in my seminar and in the classroom, and has continued to grow in her professional life and learning since then. She has been a successful elementary school teacher, a teacher working with other teachers to develop their skills, a wife, mother and active community member. It was a joy to me when she and her young family moved back to Princeton and we have continued to be friends.
Betsy brings to this work her gift for helping individuals and groups to collaborate, a talent I have seen grow over the years I have known her. She did it as a student in my seminar and continues to hone that skill. It is certainly the perfect time in our town’s educational history to bring that gift to the Board of Education.
We are one town now; we have come through a difficult period which threatened to do serious damage to our schools; we can now work together to make a good educational system so much better for all our students. Betsy Baglio can and will do that. As her former teacher and her friend, I am immensely proud of her work, and I urge all to vote for her on Nov. 3.
Marue Walizer
Princeton
