Welcome to the New Jersey History and Historic Preservation Conference

7:30AM - 8:45AM

Registration, Breakfast, Marketplace, and Student Posters

Registration, Breakfast, Marketplace, and Student Posters

  • Location:
  • Main Lobby at Stockton University Atlantic City

Please check-in at the registration table in the Main Lobby.

Breakfast will be served in the hallway in front of the Fanny Lou Hamer auditorium.

Please take a walk through the sponsor and exhibitor marketplace located on the second and third floors to meet with vendors and view student posters.

8:00AM - 12:00PM

Atlantic City By Land and By Sea Tour

T-3

T-3 | Atlantic City By Land and By Sea Tour

  • Location:
  • Main Lobby at Stockton University Atlantic City
  • Audience:
  • All

Time: 8:00 am 12:00 pm

The AC by Land and Sea tour offers guests the ability to explore all of Atlantic City in this two-part tour! 

First, discover Atlantic City’s hidden cultural and architectural history on a guided bus tour! Home to countless family entertainment venues and souvenir shops, not to mention casinos and the Boardwalk, Atlantic City has a history that is deeper than just the shoreline. Participants will have the chance to take a ride off-the-beaten-path to discover the unique cultural evolution of several Atlantic City neighborhoods, see the ever-changing art and architecture in this dynamic city, and learn about the ways that different communities have occupied adjacent and often overlapping spaces in Atlantic City for over a century. Even hear about the environmental impact of sea level rise on the community. Forget the ‘bored’ walk – this bus tour is excitement on wheels! 

Next, hop on board Cruisin’ 1! This narrated boat tour takes guests along the ocean-front skyline of Atlantic City where they can experience the morning Atlantic breeze and beautiful panoramic views, all while learning about Atlantic City and its famous boardwalk (the oldest in the world!). Atlantic City history is vast as you will learn on this cruise down Memory Lane! We strongly recommend that you bring appropriate clothing, footwear, jacket/sweater, sunscreen, and camera of your own to be prepared for the daily temperatures and to make memories! 

Please note availability is limited, and the tour is subject to change.  A conference ticket must be purchased in order to attend this tour. Attendees will be dropped off at the Tropicana for the keynote luncheon.

Presenters:

  • Levi Fox

  • Jeff George

8:45AM - 10:00AM

Early Morning Sessions

S-1 through S-6

S-1 | Loss is Not the End: Continuing Preservation Progress in the Wildwoods

  • Location:
  • Room 316
  • Audience:
  • HPC
  • AICP
  • CM | 1.25

This session will explore the origins of The Wildwoods as an exceptional architectural resource, with a collection of over 300 small motels and a distinct sense of place and authentic identity that helped tell the story of how working-class Americans vacationed in the mid-20th century, and the efforts of the Doo Wop Preservation League to create a National Register Historic District in the face of emerging new development. Something had to give way to make room for the new development, and unfortunately that something was the very thing required to create a cohesive Historic District. Discussion will include information showing how despite the failure of the creation of the Historic District, the rejection wasn’t the end of preservation in The Wildwoods, and how multiple local advocacy groups have been created to continue to preserve both the architecture and unique sense of place of the seaside resort. AICP members can earn the following credits CM | 1.25. AIA CES approved for 1.25 LU credits. 

 

AICP members can earn Certification Maintenance (CM) credits
for many activities at this event. When CM credits
are available, they are noted at the end of an activity description.
More information about AICP’s CM program can be found at
planning.org/cm.

Presenters:

  • Stephanie M. Hoagland

  • Taylor Henry

S-2 | Better Recruitment Equals Better Board Members for your Historic Site

  • Location:
  • Room 317
  • Audience:
  • NP

Break the cycle of looking for board members just two weeks before your historic site’s annual meeting! This session will review how your Nominating Committee can uncover better and more diverse board candidates and how a board commitment contract or agreement can help simplify board recruitment. During this session, you will be provided with 12 sample documents for the Nominating Committee that you can customize for your historic site/historical society board of directors. 

Moderator and Presenter:

  • Donna Ann Harris

S-3 | The State of Heritage Tourism

  • Location:
  • Room 216
  • Audience:
  • NP
  • M/C
  • HT

This session will focus on the benefits of becoming visitor ready. Heritage Tourism is a significant part of tourism revenue; panelists will highlight the economic impact of heritage tourism and hear how historic places fit into the state’s efforts to market and promote tourism. Learn how Destination Marketing Organizations can partner with you to help you promote your site and market events. This session will also acquaint participants with the resources available to help you develop an engaging visitor experience. 

Moderator and Presenter:

  • Dorothy P. Guzzo

Presenters:

  • Joseph (Jody) J. Alessandrine, Jr

  • Diane F. Wieland

  • Jeffrey S. Vasser

S-4 | Intersecting Cultural and Historic Resource Preservation with Planning for Future Climate Conditions

  • Location:
  • Room 210
  • Audience:
  • M/C
  • AICP
  • CM | 1.25
  • SR | 1

Cultural and historic resources have stood the test of time, but can they endure through current and future climate change-related impacts? This session will review the opportunities available to preserve cultural and historic resources while planning for future climate conditions. Planning mechanisms such as Hazard Mitigation Plans, Master Plan updates, Hazard Vulnerability Assessments, and the development and adoption of municipal Redevelopment Plans will be presented. Ample time will be provided for discussions between the presenters and the audience. AICP members can earn the following credits CM | 1.25; SR | 1AIA CES approved for 1.25 LU/HSW credits. 

 

AICP members can earn Certification Maintenance (CM) credits
for many activities at this event. When CM credits
are available, they are noted at the end of an activity description.
More information about AICP’s CM program can be found at
planning.org/cm.

Moderator and Presenter:

  • Lisa Auermuller

Presenters:

  • Meghan Leavey

  • Stan Slachetka

S-5 | Preservation of Engineering Structures: It’s not Your Typical Rehab

  • Location:
  • Room 311

This session will look at the differences between the preservation of buildings and the preservation of engineering works such as bridges, dams, roads and viaducts among other structures. Many preservationists may be familiar with methods and approaches to rehabilitating traditional buildings; however, these same means may be less applicable to engineering structures. Frequently improvements required by code or a change in use can be hidden within the walls of a building, improvements to exposed structural elements or replacement in-kind of some structural materials often require other methods. 

This session will provide an overview of the differences between preservation of engineering structures and buildings. It will describe ways to address those differences as well as provide an in-depth case study of the rehabilitation of a Pratt truss bridge deemed functionally obsolete. This case study will address the various challenges of addressing the structural deficiencies while still meeting the Secretary of Interior’s Standards and earning a state-wide preservation award. 

AIA CES approved for 1.25 LU/HSW credits.

Presenters:

  • William Pyontek

  • Donald Friedman

S-6 | Navigating the Digital Divide: Discovering and Accessing Digital Tools for Preservation Research and Planning

  • Location:
  • Room 217
  • Audience:
  • AICP
  • CM | 1.25
  • H
  • HPC
  • M/C

Online resources for historic preservation advocates and planners continue to evolve. The Historic Preservation Office and Rutgers University will share ongoing developments in cultural resources Geographic Information Systems (GIS), documentation access, and resiliency planning tools. Through hands on activities, participants will learn how to leverage these online resources to better understand the cultural landscape in their communities. Existing applications and tools will be presented in detail, and participants will have the opportunity to dive in and explore these systems through guided exercises with assistance from the instructors. Highlights include HPO’s LUCY Online GIS and the statewide cultural resource inventory, DEP’s DataMiner reporting system and other planned systems for accessing cultural resources documentation, and Rutgers University’s NJADAPT suite of data-visualization and mapping tools designed to assist planners, community leaders, businesses, and residents to understand and adapt to the impacts of climate change on people, assets, and communities in New Jersey. AICP members can earn the following credits CM | 1.25.

 

AICP members can earn Certification Maintenance (CM) credits
for many activities at this event. When CM credits
are available, they are noted at the end of an activity description.
More information about AICP’s CM program can be found at
planning.org/cm.

Presenters:

  • Kinney Clark

  • Pritpal Bamhrah

9:00AM - 9:15AM

Early Morning Lightning Sessions

L1-A

L1-A | How Archaeological Drone Surveys Promote Heritage Tourism

  • Audience:
  • AR
  • HT

Today, descendants and community members are looking for ways to collaborate on historic preservation. Archaeological drone surveys of historical cemeteries can help create interactive maps that are easily accessible on heritage tourism visitor’s cell phones. These interactive maps can be included within ArcGIS Story Maps which create historical narratives and profiles of those interred. Servant, enslaved peoples, and Native American histories could be reclaimed as integral components of the cemetery’s history by using Story Maps built from the archaeological drone survey data. Adding in newly discovered burials is a matter of adding another layer of data to the map. The use of archaeological drone surveys to create ArcGIS Story Maps would bring the history of the cemetery closer to modern public engagement standards while directly assisting in the preservation of the cemetery as a significant historic site. New Jersey’s Old Tennent Presbyterian Church graveyard is presented as a case study.

Presenters:

  • Victoria Sharp

10:15AM - 11:30AM

Late Morning Sessions

S-7 through S-12

S-7 | New Jersey Real Estate Agents: Stakeholders in Historic Preservation

  • Location:
  • Room 311
  • Audience:
  • All

You’ve gone through all the normal pathways to save a beloved building and now you hope to marry a sympathetic seller to an empathic buyer? Did you know that many New Jersey Real Estate agencies specialize in brokering historic properties? Both new and conventional digital tools such as websites, listings, and directories exist to help brokers, buyers, and sellers discover and preserve historic properties. This round table will reveal, explore, and inform how real estate professionals, their dedicated agents, and wide-ranging communication tools can positively impact the future of historic properties. 

Moderator and Presenter:

  • William “Billy” Neumann

Presenters:

  • David Schure

  • Meg Sullivan

  • Virgina “Beth” Harpell

  • Cristiana Peña

S-8 | Culture, Resilience, and the Arts…of Storytelling

  • Location:
  • Room 210
  • Audience:
  • AICP
  • CM | 1.25
  • M/C
  • HT

This session will present a brief overview of Monmouth County’s Arts and Heritage Planning efforts and how these projects influenced other aspects of public policy, including Economic Development, Hazard Mitigation, and even COVID response and recovery. Specific projects explored will focus on how changing technology was used to advance and promote these efforts. The audience will learn how software and online tools and services are being used in Monmouth County’s approach to storytelling to archive data, convey information, and engage the public by not just presenting the information, but also by engaging the public’s interest to seek out more information, visualize change, participate in the discussions, and activate a sense of awareness and civic responsibility. AICP members can earn the following credits CM | 1.25.

 

AICP members can earn Certification Maintenance (CM) credits
for many activities at this event. When CM credits
are available, they are noted at the end of an activity description.
More information about AICP’s CM program can be found at
planning.org/cm.

Moderator:

  • Joe Barris

Presenters:

  • Kyle DeGroot

  • Bridget Neary

  • Michael Popovech

S-9 | Interpretive Planning for All: Creative Ways to Interpret History at the Local, County, and Regional Levels

  • Location:
  • Room 316
  • Audience:
  • HPC
  • NP
  • M/C
  • HT

This session will provide an overview of interpretive planning with over 30 creative interpretive methods, followed by a presentation of case studies featuring interpretive plans that have been previously funded by the New Jersey Historic Trust. These case studies will cover interpretive plans completed for organizations of different sizes and capacities, from historical societies with all-volunteer operations to county park systems with professional staffs. The session will provide attendees with an overview of research methods and interpretive techniques that are applicable from traditional approaches to signage and tours to newer uses of digital technologies and social media. 

Presenters:

  • Patrick Harshbarger

  • Rachel Craft

S-10 | Achieving Sustainability – Merging Historic Preservation with Environmental Conservation

  • Location:
  • Fannie Lou Hamer
  • Audience:
  • AICP
  • CM | 1.25
  • SR | 1

Author of Sustainable Heritage, Merging Environmental Conservation and Historic Preservation, Amalie Leifeste will highlight the challenges of climate changes and offer best practices by separate disciplines as one cohesive way forward toward sustainable design. Dorothy Guzzo will highlight some examples from New Jersey that illustrate how environmental organizations and interests have merged with historic resources. AICP members can earn the following credits CM | 1.25; SR | 1. AIA CES approved for 1.25 LU credits.

 

AICP members can earn Certification Maintenance (CM) credits
for many activities at this event. When CM credits
are available, they are noted at the end of an activity description.
More information about AICP’s CM program can be found at
planning.org/cm.

Moderator and Presenter:

  • Dorothy P. Guzzo

Presenters:

  • Amalia Leifeste

S-11 | Changing Tides: The Effects of Climate Change on Archaeology

  • Location:
  • Room 216
  • Audience:
  • CRM
  • AR

Climate change has contributed to the erosion of many coastal archaeological resources and the unexpected discovery of others, necessitating new methods for documenting and understanding them. In this session, speakers will describe their efforts for monitoring at-risk resources and discuss their views on the impact of climate change on archaeology as well as their methods for salvaging information before it is lost. 

Moderator:

  • Alexis Alemy

Presenters:

  • Gregory Lattanzi

  • Heather Wholey

S-12 | NJ Historic Tax Credits – Tips and Tricks on Putting Together the Perfect Application

  • Location:
  • Room 310
  • Audience:
  • AICP
  • CM | 1.25
  • HPC
  • M/C

The session will go over the basics of the Historic Property Reinvestment Program (HPRP) and will provide guidance and tips on how to prepare a successful application.  Learn directly from program reviewers how to best present your project, how to prevent common mistakes, and how to focus on preparing an application that will give your project the best chance at success. The HPRP is a competitive historic tax credit (HTC) program with an annual cap of $50 million that can be used to leverage the federal HTC. AICP members can earn the following credits CM | 1.25AIA CES approved for 1.25 LU credits. 

 

AICP members can earn Certification Maintenance (CM) credits
for many activities at this event. When CM credits
are available, they are noted at the end of an activity description.
More information about AICP’s CM program can be found at
planning.org/cm.

Moderator:

  • Caroline Peters

Presenters:

  • C. Aidita Milsted

  • Michael Wierzbicki

10:30AM - 11:15AM

Late Morning Lightning Sessions

L2-A and L2-B

L2-A | “Don’t Give Up the Ship” Reborn!

  • Location:
  • Room 211
  • Audience:
  • NP
  • HT

Discover the rebirth of the historic 1740 Captain James Lawrence family home in Burlington, New Jersey that has been repurposed into a military history museum venue with a focus on New Jersey and neighboring regions. Renovated and restored to its early colonial period glory, it opened in June 2022 to the public and has since achieved highly favorable reviews! The museum is a must-see experience. 

Presenters:

  • Roy Plummer

L2-B | Promoting historic sites with the Camden County Heritage Tourism Interactive Touchwall

  • Location:
  • Room 211
  • Audience:
  • NP
  • M/C
  • HT

Let us introduce you to the 133 important people, historic sites and history organizations found on 42” by 8 foot wide, Camden Heritage Tourism Interactive Touch Wall located in the lobby of City Hall Camden. Since August 2021, the Camden Touch Wall has entertained crowds every day who interact with the handsome artist-drawn interactive mural depicting 350 years of City of Camden history. Visitors touch the mural, and 49 City of Camden people, places, and important events “popup” with a 50–200-word description, visitor information and a historic photo of the location/person. In winter 2022, a Camden County map with 51 historic sites and history organizations, and 33 Revolutionary War battle and skirmish sites was added to the touch wall and to the City of Camden website under a new “history” page. This project is a collaboration between the City of Camden and the Camden County History Alliance/Camden County Historical Society. 

Moderator:

  • Donna Ann Harris

Presenters:

  • Patrice Bassett

  • Valentina Miller

11:15AM - 12:15PM

Travel from Stockton to the Tropicana

Travel to the Tropicana from Stockton

  • Location:
  • The Boardwalk on Roosevelt Place

Make your way to the Boardwalk via Roosevelt Place to experience a scenic and historical view of the Atlantic City Boardwalk as you are transported from Stockton University to the Tropicana via tram service.

Please note, you will need to walk a short distance to the Boardwalk. If you do not wish to take the tram service, it is a 0.6 mile walk to the Tropicana. If you wish to take your vehicle, you will have to pay for parking at the Tropicana. 

12:00PM - 2:00PM

Lunch, Welcoming Remarks, and Keynote Address

Responding to Climate Change Impacts on World Heritage

  • Location:
  • Tropicana,
  • Salons 3 & 4
  • Audience:
  • All

Enjoy lunch at the Tropicana as you hear welcoming remarks from local and state officials. The conference keynote, Adam Markham, Acting Director of the Climate & Energy Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), will address conference participants about the impact of climate change on world heritage.

Climate change is the fastest growing threat to cultural heritage world-wide. Storms, coastal erosion, extreme heat and wildfires are putting many of UNESCO’s iconic World Heritage sites – from Venice, Italy to Angkor in Cambodia – in peril. Historic buildings, cultural landscapes and archaeological sites are at risk globally, and throughout the US. How can we best respond to reduce the impacts and increase resilience to climate change? AICP members can earn the following credits CM | 1; SR | 1.

 

AICP members can earn Certification Maintenance (CM) credits
for many activities at this event. When CM credits
are available, they are noted at the end of an activity description.
More information about AICP’s CM program can be found at
planning.org/cm.

Presenters:

  • Adam Markham

2:00PM - 2:30PM

Travel to Stockton from the Tropicana

Travel to Stockton from the Tropicana

Exit the Tropicana to the Boardwalk to experience a scenic and historical view of the Atlantic City Boardwalk as you are transported from the Tropicana to Stockton University via tram service.

Please note, the tram will let you off at Roosevelt Place on the Boardwalk and you will have to walk a short distance back to the building. If you do not wish to take the tram service, it is a 0.6 mile walk to Stockton University. If you wish to take your vehicle, you might have to pay for parking again in the Stockton University Garage or Hartford Lot. 

2:30PM - 3:45PM

Afternoon Sessions

S-13 through S-17

S-13 | Unpacking Lessons Learned from the Sustainable Management of Collections Environments with Limited Controls Research Project: Practical Solutions for your Spaces

  • Location:
  • Room 310

This panel presentation will discuss the results of the Sustainable Management of Collections Environments with Limited Controls project, a two-phase NEH-funded research project between the Morris County Park Commission, the Image Permanence Institute, and the Conservation Center of Art & Historic Artifacts. The panel hopes to help provide information on how to make low-cost and energy-efficient decisions regarding managing collection preservation environments across a range of historic structures. The study experimented in spaces with limited or no HVAC control and gathered environmental monitoring data to make informed cost-benefit analyses and provide mechanical and passive methods to improve collections environments. The presenters will share the results of this experiment and the lessons learned that could help other history organizations analyze their own environmental data and make practical choices so that they can create their own best environments within their limited budgets. AIA CES approved for 1.25 LU/HSW credits. 

Presenters:

  • Katie Humphreys

  • Melanie Bump

S-14 | Shining a Light on NJ Underground Railroad Sites

  • Location:
  • Room 210
  • Audience:
  • NP
  • M/C
  • H
  • HPC

Underground Railroad sites should top heritage tourism lists throughout the region. Some are long-established, others are new to historic preservation, yet all share challenges. This session targets those who are interested in telling the powerful, coherent story of freedom seekers, their supporters, and the trials and trails they navigated as they made their way through New Jersey and into freedom. Subjects addressed will include how to become listed on the State and National Registers of Historic Places, how to be placed on the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom, fundraising, sustainability, creating heritage tourism appeal, developing connections with schools and educational groups, and much more. 

Moderator:

  • Noelle Lorraine Williams

Presenters:

  • Jimmy Richardson

  • Linda Shockley

  • Cindy Mullock

  • Deborah Price

S-15 | We Have a Lot at Risk: Extreme Weather and NJ’s Cultural and Historic Treasures

  • Location:
  • Room 216
  • Audience:
  • AICP
  • CM | 1.25

On this interdisciplinary panel, Monmouth University Public Historian Melissa Ziobro will provide an overview of the impact of Superstorm Sandy on New Jersey’s historic sites. This will be followed by in-depth case studies featuring two institutions devastated by the storm: the National Guard Militia Museum and the Keansburg Historical Society. Discussion will include answering questions such as: How did their organizations prepare for the storm? How were they ultimately impacted? What did the recovery process look like? And what lessons learned can they share? Lastly, a representative of the Monmouth University Urban Coast Institute will contribute their observations on climate change and coastal resiliency as they relate to historic sites and heritage tourism. AICP members can earn the following credits CM | 1.25AIA CES approved for 1.25 LU/HSW credits. 

 

AICP members can earn Certification Maintenance (CM) credits
for many activities at this event. When CM credits
are available, they are noted at the end of an activity description.
More information about AICP’s CM program can be found at
planning.org/cm.

Moderator and Presenter:

  • Melissa Ziobro

Presenters:

  • Staff Sgt. Andrew Walker

  • John Swartz

  • Dr. Tom Herrington

S-16 | Visitor Surveys: Get to Know your Audience

  • Location:
  • Room 316
  • Audience:
  • NP
  • M/C
  • HT

Visitor surveys are an important tool for measuring success and developing future programming at historic sites. Attendees will learn how to use surveys as a measurement tool while hearing case studies from three historic sites around the state that have made surveying their visitors a high priority. Attendees will learn what motivated these historic sites to undertake audience research; how they approach surveying; what platforms they use, if any; and why it has made a difference at their organization. Attendees will be supplied with survey samples and tools to begin conducting their own audience research. 

Moderator:

  • Donna Ann Harris

Presenters:

  • Ashley Parker

  • Lynne Calamia

  • Bonny Beth Elwell

  • Rachael Goldberg

S-17 | “Buried in the Trenches…”: Navigating a mass burial space through archaeology, public engagement, and site reinterpretation at Red Bank Battlefield Park

  • Location:
  • Fannie Lou Hamer
  • Audience:
  • AR
  • H
  • M/C

This session will focus on the mass burial discovered at Red Bank Battlefield Park during a public archaeology study, with more than 100 volunteers working alongside the professional team. The session offers conference participants an opportunity to learn about origins of the project, archaeological findings, comprehensive forensic analyses, and the challenges and opportunities for public engagement and site reinterpretation. This will be the first time the archaeology team has presented together since the discovery in summer 2022 at the Gloucester County Park 

Presenters:

  • Jennifer Janofsky

  • Wade P. Catts

  • Thomas A. Crist

  • Anna W. Delaney

2:45PM - 3:30PM

Afternoon Lightning Sessions

L3-A and L3-B

L3-A | Walking through History: How one community created a user friendly, self-guided walking tour complete with professional laid out brochure

  • Location:
  • Room 211
  • Audience:
  • HPC
  • NP
  • M/C
  • HT

The borough of Pompton Lakes is perhaps best known for being the filming location of the 1997 American comedy, In and Out. The film is rather highly rated, scoring 72% on Rotten Tomatoes and 6.4/10 stars on IMBD.com. Many residents appeared as extras in the film, which remains a point of pride for those pictured and their families, but the film did not generate the boom in local tourism that might have been expected. Besides this fun foray with Hollywood, the Borough of Pompton Lakes has a rich and engaging local history, dating back to the town’s incorporation in 1985 and earlier! In 2017, the Pompton Lakes Historic Commission began an undertaking with the goal of boosting local tourism and building greater awareness of the vibrant local history by producing a professionally laid out, printed and electronic self-guided walking tour guide. Chairwoman, Laura Jennings Pitt, offers her expertise as the main author of the guide to help other communities create documents that make our local history accessible and engaging! 

Presenters:

  • Ekamon Venin

  • Laura Jennings Pitt

L3-B | Tracing the History of a Museum’s Neighborhood: Searching the Census by Address

  • Location:
  • Room 211
  • Audience:
  • H
  • NP

This session will illustrate how historic house museums can draw on the histories of adjacent geographic areas to re-interpret and expand their historical narratives. The history of the William Trent House Museum in Trenton, NJ, like many other historic homes, is not representative of the history of its surrounding neighborhood. Examining the history of the neighborhood allows us to place Trent House, an estate historically known to house statesmen and other wealthy individuals, within a predominately working-class world. Searching 1880 to 1950 U.S. Census records by address can reveal household members’ immigrant status and country of origin, household size and composition, owner-renter status, and household member occupations. Historic house museums can, as a result, trace the dynamics of demographic change in a chosen neighborhood. The session will include visual aids such as maps and statistical charts and will demonstrate how the William Trent House Museum has incorporated this expanded historical narrative into exhibits (to be installed in early spring 2023). Our target audiences are public history professionals working in historic homes and, more generally, anyone who is interested in incorporating local history into the historical narratives of public history sites. 

Moderator:

  • Sam Stephens

Presenters:

  • Hannah Lee

4:00PM - 6:00PM

Closing Reception

Closing Reception and Poster Session Award Ceremony

An informal closing reception at Stockton University featuring an award ceremony for the Poster Session participants. Light refreshments and entertainment will be provided.