Lauer, Evelyn. "Around Town", The Record, January 11, 1987. Accessed January 4, 2022, via Newspapers.com. "Those who took honors for poetry are: First prize Edward Zdanek, Dumont High School. Second prize Jeff Janisheski, Don Bosco High School, Ramsey, Sam Lipsyte, Northern Valley Regional High School, Demarest; and Halice Ruppi, Dwight Morrow High School, Englewood."
Staff. "Corrections", Poets & Writers, May/June 2010. Accessed July 28, 2011. "Sam Lipsyte's hometown is Closter, New Jersey, not Demarest, as stated in Failure's Fortune by Frank Bures (March/April 2010)."