The late Lesley Gore has been nominated for The New Jersey Hall of Fame.
The late singers Lesley Gore and Phoebe Snow, dancer and choreographer Savion Glover, filmmaker Kevin Smith, and comedian and pundit Bill Maher are among the 50 nominees for the New Jersey Hall of Fame’s class of 2024, and the hall is asking for the public’s help in choosing the inductees. Votes can be cast HERE.
Other nominees include film director Thom Zimny (known for his work with Bruce Springsteen and others); writers John McPhee, Gay Talese and Janet Evanovich; CNN host Dana Bash; Super Bowl-winning Giants head coach Bill Parcells; sex researcher Alfred Kinsey; television executive Warren Littlefield; and guitar maker and inventor Phil Petillo.
Here are the nominees.
ARTS & LETTERS
Dana Bash|
Lonnie Bunch, III
Janet Evanovich
Elizabeth Gilbert
Brian Hanlon
Susan Hendricks
John McPhee
Michael Aaron Rockland
Gay Talese
Thom Zimny
EDUCATION & SCIENCE
Charles P. Bailey
Nicholas Murray Butler
William C. Campbell
Elizabeth Coleman-White
J. Warren Davies
Freeman Dyson
John P. Holland
Alfred Kinsey
Phil Petillo
Alfred Vail
ENTERPRISE
Marc Berson
James E. Burke
Peter Cancro
George Cooney
Ara K. Hovnanian
Joe Jingoli
Donald Katz
Chris Malachowsky
Gail J. McGovern
Janeen Uzzell
SAVION GLOVER
PERFORMING ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Clarence Avant
Sandra Dee
Lola Falana
Savion Glover
Lesley Gore
Warren Littlefield
Bill Maher
Kevin Smith
Phoebe Snow
Michael Uslan
PUBLIC SERVICE
Alice Stone Blackwell
Nicholas F. Brady
John O. Brennan
William T. Cahill
Michael Chertoff
Joe Louis Clark
Edwin D. Leahy
William E. Simon Sr.
Lucy Stone
Geraldine Morgan Thompson
SPORTS
Martin Brodeur
Hubie Brown
Dick Button
Stanley Dancer
Orel Hershiser
Tim Howard
Ron Johnson
Bill Parcells
Drew Pearson
Mary Decker Slaney
For information about the hall, visit halloffame.org.
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