FARACE, CINDY E.
age 51 of West Deptford NJ, died on Tuesday October 9, 2007. She was a former Telemetry Technician at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital for 20 years. Cindy holds a place in the hearts of her family and will be deeply missed.
Wife of Joseph W. Farace, she is also survived by one son Nicholas J. Farace of Maple Shade, two sisters Kathleen Wilson of Mantua, Colleen T. Brooks of Wenonah, two brothers L. William Lonsinger and Samuel H. Brooks both of Johnstown PA, many nieces and nephews, and her cat, Lynx. Cindy was pre-deceased by her father Samuel Brooks, Jr., and her sister Donna Layton.
Relatives and friends may visit with the family 9 to 11 AM Saturday, at SMITH FUNERAL HOME, 47 Main St. Mantua, where funeral services will be held at 11 AM. Interment Wenonah Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the family via Colleen T. Brooks 405 Princeton Blvd. Wenonah, NJ 08090.

BETHLEHEM, Pa.–In a tale of two halves, the Broncs lost a two-goal lead, giving up four second half goals, falling in a non-conference game at Lehigh Wednesday night. \”I’ve always said a 2-0 lead is the most dangerous lead you can have and unfortunately, I was right tonight,\” said head coach Lori Hussong.

Rider (6-6) opened the scoring 14 minutes into the game with senior Emily Egan (Gibbsboro, N.J./Eastern) hitting the back of the cage. For Egan, it was her first goal of the season in only her second game after returning from a stress fracture and a torn ACL that kept her sidelined for the last year. Junior Diana Celebre (Lake Grove, N.Y./Sachem) assisted on the goal.

\”Diana made a great move and there was an opportunity to make an offensive play and I went for it,\” said Egan who’s last game was against Lehigh on October 8, 2006 before being sidelined with a stress fracture missing the final eight games of the season. Egan tore an ACL in the spring causing her to miss the first 10 games this season. \”It feels great to be back on the field and able to help the team. It was a long road back.\”

\”Having Emily back in the lineup is huge for us,\” said Hussong. \”Her effort, the senior leadership that she brings to the team, it is just a big lift to have her back and it was very emotional when she scored tonight.\”

Freshman Lindsay Rajeski (New Egypt, N.J./New Egypt) notched her third goal of the season two minutes later off assists from junior Julie Vaccarelli (Oceanport, N.J./Shore Regional) and freshman Margaret Ecke (New Egypt, N.J./New Egypt) and Rider led 2-0 at the half.

The Mountain Hawks scored two minutes into the second half and tied the game four minutes later. Lehigh (6-6) notched the eventual game-winner with 19 minutes left in the game and added an insurance goal with just over two minutes left.

\”I’m disappointed with our effort in the second half,\” Hussong said. \”Even in the first half, Lehigh was taking it to us and we weren’t defending very well. Lehigh got a quick goal and the momentum to start the second half and really took it to us. If we would have battled and shown effort for the ’50-50’ plays, I wouldn’t be so upset. But we’ve had a reoccurring theme this season not making those plays and that’s not acceptable. It comes down to a point where the ‘Rider pride, the Rider way of playing field hockey’ has to show and that wasn’t there tonight.\”

The Mountain Hawks out-shot Rider 9-5 in the second half and 13-11 for the game.

\”You don’t ever want to lose but we are fortunate to have the opportunity from a non-conference game to learn from our mistakes,\” Egan said. \”We will get back to work at practice tomorrow (Thursday) and we will make sure we are ready for the conference game on Friday.\”

Bronc senior goalie Jen LoCastro (Cherry Hill/Camden Catholic) made five saves as Lehigh held a 12-3 advantage in penalty corners including an 8-0 second half advantage.

\”Jen kept us in the game,\” Hussong added. \”If she doesn’t make some great plays, the game could have really gotten out of hand. Our defense didn’t do anything to help her out and she deserved a better fate tonight. The score is not reflective of J-Lo’s effort.\”

In a battle of unbeaten conference rivals, Rider hosts defending conference champion Lock Haven in a Northeast Conference game on Friday at 4:00pm.

\”Every game from here on out is important,\” Hussong added. \”There are inherent things that we need to do better and with the conference game on Friday, we need to figure out the mistakes we made tonight and more importantly, correct them going forward.\”

Vicki Orzechowski will be joining some of her former players when she is inducted into the Camden County Hall of Fame.

Orzechowski, who coached the Paul VI High School girls\’ basketball team to four state titles between 1967 and 1977, will be inducted along with former Eagles\’ great Mary Scharff during a ceremony Oct. 20 at the Woodbine Inn in Pennsauken.

Orzechowski also will join her former Paul VI star player Deidre Kane, who was inducted last year.

\”It is a real honor, they were outstanding athletes,\” Orzechowski said.

Orzechowski, a 1963 Camden Catholic graduate who grew up in Haddon Township, said she never thought of entering a Hall of Fame with her players back when Paul VI and Gloucester Catholic reigned in South Jersey girls\’ basketball.

Interestingly, Orzechowski and Scharff will enter the Camden County Hall of Fame in the same class with former Gloucester Catholic coach Bert Nolan and Rams\’ star player Mickey McGlade.

\”We are all going in together,\” Orzechowski said with respect, \”two rival players and two rival coaches at the same time. That\’s kind of neat.\”

During Orzechowski\’s 10 years at Paul VI, the Eagles won four Parochial State Championships. She coached championship teams while making the transition from the six-player game to the five-player game.

\”When I first started playing back in sixth grade, you could only bounce the ball once,\” Orzechowski said with a laugh about her days at St. Rose of Lima in Haddon Heights. \”It was amazing, it really was.\”

So was Orzechowski and the coaching tree she has developed.

In addition to Scharff, who played and coached at Immaculata and is an inductee in the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Mass., and Kane, who is the long-time head coach at West Chester University, former players Crissy Palladino (Camden Catholic), Donna Harris (Paul VI) and Judy Rekow (Cherokee) are all head coaches.

\”It is really exciting now to see so many former players now coaching,\” she said.

Ironically, Palladino, Harris and Rekow (who played for Orzechowski at The College of New Jersey) all coach now at former coaching stops of their mentor. Orzechowski coached at Cherokee in the 1980\’s.

\”I\’m so glad Donna is the head coach at Paul VI, and Crissy at Camden Catholic and Judy at Cherokee as well as Diedre at West Chester,\” Orzechowski said. \”It is a great feeling for me to say I coached these women and they all are doing great jobs.

\”They made my life a wonderful experience.\”

After earning 12 varsity letters at Camden Catholic for field hockey, basketball and tennis, Orzechowski went on to play at Immaculata. She made all-conference as a senior in 1967.

Immaculata went on to win three national championships in the early 1970s with Scharff playing a leading role. A movie on the Mighty Macs, \”Our Lady of Victory\” is due out in April.

\”We are all excited to see it,\” Orzechowski said, \”it will be neat, a truly Cinderella story.\”

Orzechowski, who followed the legendary Cathy Rush as coach of Immaculata, serves on the board of the Albert Carino Girls Basketball Club.

\”My Dad (Jim Sclasani) was instrumental in getting the Carino Club to honor women,\” she said.

\”Diedre Kane gave an incredible speech that night and it became so big we had to separate from the boys.\”

Orzechowski also dedicates much of her free time as a volunteer for Special Olympics and as a wish grantor and mentor for the Make-A-Wish Foundation of New Jersey.

Bertha \”Raskis\” Nolan, age 82, passed away of natural causes on Wednesday, October 10, 2007, with her loving family at her side. Bertha, currently of Trumbull, Connecticut, was born and raised in Gloucester City, NJ.

A prominent athlete in her youth she was an All American and Olympic Alternate Field Hockey player and went on to a long and rewarding career as a high school teacher and celebrated girls basketball coach at Gloucester Catholic High School in Gloucester City, NJ.

PHOTO: Bert Nolan, 1963 Gloucester Catholic High School year book

A graduate of Gloucester City High School and Glassboro State University, Bertha\’s career as a high school basketball coach earned her and her teams numerous state championship titles and coaching awards. A plaque in tribute to her contribution to girls and women\’s basketball hangs in the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, MA.

She is scheduled to be inducted next week into the South Jersey Basketball Hall of Fame.

Bertha is survived by her childhood sweetheart and loving husband of 62 years Andrew Nolan, their two children Drew Nolan and his wife Beverly of Merchantville, NJ and Dianne Nolan and her husband Mark Breslin of Fairfield CT, and Bert\’s grandchildren Julie, Ryan and Coe Nolan , Zachary, Andrew and John Breslin.

Relatives, friends, former educators and students are kindly invited to attend her viewing on Sunday Evening from 6 to 9 pm and Monday morning from 9 am to 10 am at the McCANN-HEALEY FUNERAL HOME: 851 Monmouth Street, at Brown Street) Gloucester City. Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated 10:30 am at Saint Mary\’s R.C. Church: 426 Monmouth Street, Gloucester City. Interment New Saint Mary\’s Cemetery, Bellmawr.

Family requests that in lieu of flowers memorial donations in Bert\’s name be made to the Bert Nolan Memorial Scholarship Fund: c/o Gloucester Catholic Alumni Association: 333 Ridgeway Street, Gloucester City, NJ 08030. Please write in memo of check: Bert Nolan. Expressions of sympathy can be e-mailed to the family through the funeral home website McCann-Healey Funeral Home under online obituaries of Bertha \”Bertha\” Nolan.

 

From the Courier-Post (October 11)

Bert Nolan, who helped to revolutionalize girls\’ basketball in South Jersey as a highly successful coach at Gloucester Catholic High School, has died.

Nolan helped bring girls\’ basketball into the modern era when the sport changed from 6-on-6 to 5-on-5 play in 1960s. Her powerful Gloucester Catholic teams helped establish the sport\’s legitimacy.

Nolan\’s 1973 Gloucester Catholic team won the first state title in girls\’ basketball in New Jersey. The Rams won a state tournament that was opened to all programs at every gorup level.

Gloucester Catholic also won the all-groups state title in 1974.

In 1976, the state began to sponsor state tournaments in various groups for girls\’ basketball.

Nolan was a 1944 graduate of Gloucester High School and an accomplished field hockey player. She also graduated from Glassboro State Colege (now Rowan University).

Although records are incomplete, Nolan is believed to have won more than 500 games in 24 years of coaching basketball, field hockey and softball at Gloucester Catholic.Read more

ESTELL, JOHN ROBERT
of Woodbury, NJ on October 9, 2007. Aged 65 years.
Before retiring, John was a Respiratory Therapist. He actively played softball in an over 60 league. John loved entertaining his family and friends with his sense of humor. He enjoyed trips to the shore, going on family vacations and playing and watching sports.
Beloved husband of Patricia (nee Foley) of 37 years. Devoted father of Kim (John) Underwood and son John (Lisa) Estell, Jr. Loving son of Florence (nee Puckett) and the late John Estell , son-in-law of Ruth Foley. Dear brother of Joann (Richard) Vogel, Terry (Joe) Worrell and Kathleen (the late Michael) Schroeder. Loving grandfather of Morgan and Jack Underwood.
All services are private. Arrangements are under the McGUINNESS FUNERAL HOME, Woodbury, NJ. Tributes & memories may be shared at:www.mcgfuneral. com