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COMMEMORATIVE EDITION

25th Anniversary of Peer Leadership | New Branding Initiative SCLC President Christian Hoffman ’94 | Entrepreneur Seth Flowerman ’04 Career Day | Reunion Photo Gallery | Athletic Hall of Fame Inductees COMMEMORATIVE EDITION

’72, ’75, Former Headmaster From left: Fred Bartenstein, Jr. P ’68, ’70, Former Headmaster Scotty ’64, ’61, P ’31, cke Beine Bill Dave Wilson ’59, ’39, P ’69 l Bristo Mac Cunningham ’38, P ’78, ’80, and

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25 Years of the Martinsville Campus

In November 1983, Pingry moved from its Hillside Campus to the new facility in Martinsville. This issue’s cover story describes the reasons for the move, the unique challenges that the school faced, and the people who made the move possible.

On the covers: A nighttime view of the Martinsville Campus today and the Martinsville Campus under construction.

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Two words, “Excellence” and “Honor,” have been added to the Pingry logo to distinguish the school in the community. Find out how these words were selected.

22 25 Years of Peer Leadership

For a quarter-century, through the informal setting of the Peer Group program, seniors have been providing guidance to freshmen to help them adjust to high school and to talk about issues.

43 High School Students are in Business

Seth Flowerman ’04 became an entrepreneur while he was still in school. His company, Career Explorations, is now internationally recognized for offering internships to high school students.

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In May, alumni returned to Pingry for three days of activities, including the Fifty-Year Club Luncheon, the Athletic Hall of Fame ceremony, and a reception celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Martinsville Campus.

60 Athletic Hall of Fame Inductees

Harold Monier ’28*, P ’56, ’58, ’64, Marc Murphy ’69*, Amy Murnick ’94, Coach Manny Tramontana P ’85, ’87, the 1988 Boys’ Soccer Team, and the 1988 Girls’ Soccer Team were inducted on May 15, 2009. * posthumously

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Board of Trustees, 2008-2009 John B. Brescher, Jr. ’65, P ’99 Chair

Sara Boisvert Interim Director of Admission Director of Global Programs

John W. Holman III ’79, P ’09, ’11, ’14 Vice Chair

Lydia B. Geacintov P ’84, ’88 Director of Studies

Edward S. Atwater IV ’63 Treasurer

Melanie P. Hoffmann P ’20 Director of Development Gerry Vanasse P ’14 Director of Athletics

Harold W. Borden ’62 Secretary

Quoc Vo Director of Information Technology

Alice F. Rooke P ’02, ’04 Assistant Secretary

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One-hundred-thirty seniors pursued their passions with Independent Study Projects.

Read The Record to learn about their ISPs and see all of the Senior Awards.

Deborah J. Barker P ’12, ’16 Cynthia Cuffie-Jackson P ’04, ’07 Anne DeLaney ’79, P ’09, ’11, ’14 Jeffrey N. Edwards ’78, P ’12, ’14 Miriam T. Esteve P ’09, ’11, ’19 William D. Ju P ’09, ’11 Donna Kreisbuch P ’06, ’10 Steven M. Lipper ’79, P ’09, ’12, ’14 Terence M. O’Toole P ’05, ’08 Deryck A. Palmer P ’09 Dan C. Roberts P ’99, ’02, ’09 Ian S. Shrank ’71 Park B. Smith ’50 Henry G. Stifel III ’83 Denise E. Vanech P ’09 Audrey M. Wilf P ’02, ’04, ’13 Barry L. Zubrow P ’10 Honorary Trustees David M. Baldwin ’47, P ’75, ’76, ’81, ’98 Fred Bartenstein, Jr. William S. Beinecke ’31, P ’61, ’64 John P. Bent, Jr. P ’80, ’82, ’84 William M. Bristol III ’39, P ’69 Victoria Brooks P ’02, ’04 William V. Engel ’67 John W. Holman, Jr. ’55, P ’79 Henry H. Hoyt, Jr. ’45 Warren S. Kimber, Jr. ’52, P ’76, ’79 Stephan F. Newhouse ’65, P ’95, ’97, ’99 Norman B. Tomlinson, Jr. ’44 F. Helmut Weymar ’54 John C. Whitehead P ’73 Administration, 2008-2009 Nathaniel E. Conard P ’09, ’11 Headmaster Theodore M. Corvino, Sr. P ’94, ’97, ’02 Assistant Headmaster-Short Hills Lower School Director Jonathan D. Leef P ’15, ’18 Assistant Headmaster-Martinsville Denise M. Brown-Allen Upper School Director Philip S. Cox Middle School Director John W. Pratt Chief Financial Officer

Office of Alumni Relations and Annual Giving Miller Bugliari ’52, P ’86, ’90, ’97 Special Assistant to the Headmaster Jacqueline Sullivan Director of Alumni Relations and Annual Giving Alison Harle Associate Director of Alumni Relations and Annual Giving Kristen Tinson Associate Director of Alumni Relations and Annual Giving Anthony Obst P ’92, ’95, ’97, ’02, ’07 Associate Director of The Parent Fund Laura K. Stoffel Assistant Director of Alumni Relations and Annual Giving Yolanda G. Carden Development Assistant Pingry Alumni Association, 2008-2009 Steve Lipper ’79, P ’09, ’12, ’14 President Alison Zoellner ’83, P ’16, ’18 Vice President Sam Partridge ’92 Vice President Norbert Weldon ’91 Vice President Chip Korn ’89 Treasurer John Campbell III ’86 Secretary Terms Expiring in 2009 Albert Bauer ’45 Bradford Bonner ’93 John Campbell III ’86 Rebecca Frost ’94 Jane Hoffman ’94 Genesia Perlmutter Kamen ’79, P ’11, ’13 Robert Kirkland ’48 Conor Mullett ’84, P ’14, ’15 Samuel Partridge ’92 Mary Sarro-Waite ’01 William J. Silbey ’77 Gordon Sulcer ’61, P ’95, ’01 Katrina Welch ’06 Norbert Weldon ’91

Terms Expiring in 2010 Mark Bigos ’79 Anthony Bowes ’96 Kyle Coleman ’80 Lisa Fraites-Dworkin ’81 Jonathan Gibson ’88 E. Lori Halivopoulos ’78 Robert Hough ’77 Peter Korn, Jr. ’89 Stuart Lederman ’78 Guy Leedom ’54 Steven Lipper ’79, P ’09, ’12, ’14 William Mennen ’85, P ’21, ’22 Sean O’Donnell ’75, P ’05, ’10 Ronald Rice, Jr. ’86 Jonathan Robustelli ’90 Sandra Salter ’93 Jonathan Shelby ’74, P ’08, ’11 Alison Zoellner ’83, P ’16, ’18 Terms Expiring in 2011 Jake Angell ’90 Todd Burrows ’90 David Freinberg ’74, P ’12, ’15 Allison Haltmaier ’80, P ’11, ’13 Cathleen Lazor ’88 H. David Rogers ’61 Kevin Schmidt ’98 Tracy Klingeman Stalzer ’84 Betsy Vreeland ’84, P ’11, ’12, ’15 Amy Warner ’78 Susan Barba Welch ’77, P ’06, ’09, ’11, ’13, ’16 Honorary Director John Geddes ’62, P ’95 The Review Editorial Staff Greg Waxberg ’96, Editor Communications Writer Melanie Hoffmann P ’20 Director of Development Mark J. Sullivan Director of Strategic Communications Jacqueline Sullivan Director of Alumni Relations and Annual Giving Kristen Tinson Associate Director of Alumni Relations and Annual Giving Maureen E. Maher Communications Associate/Writer Design and Layout Ruby Window Creative Group, Inc. www.rubywindow.com Photography Peter Chollick Bruce Morrison ’64 Bill Storer Debbie Weisman

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A Letter from the Headmaster Those risks and many other details of the move are described in this issue of The Pingry Review, which commemorates the Martinsville Campus’ silver anniversary. Our cover story takes us back to December 1969, when the idea of the move was broached, and you will also read about some of the changes that have taken place on the campus during the past 25 years.

It is interesting to note that our longest-serving faculty member, Miller Bugliari ’52, has now spent the same number of years at the Martinsville Campus as he spent at the Hillside Campus. Miller, who joined the Pingry faculty in 1959, celebrated 50 years of teaching and coaching this spring. In early April, hundreds of alumni, including generations of his former soccer players, returned to the campus to honor him for a half-century of inspiration to the Pingry community; photos from this event are included in “Alumni News.”

You will enjoy our collection of photographs from Reunion Weekend and tributes to the newest members of Pingry’s Athletic Hall of Fame. A special profile in the Alumni section is of award-winning entrepreneur Seth Flowerman ’04, who is internationally recognized for his two businesses that help high school students with their college and career aspirations.

Dear Members of the Pingry Community,

Other profiles include faculty member Vicki Grant, who will become the chair of the English department this fall; faculty member and swimming coach Bill Reichle, who has been inducted into the New Jersey Scholastic Coaches Association’s Hall of Fame; and Middle School student Matthew Marvin, who appeared in the recent movie Doubt.

I wish you a fun, relaxing summer, and I look forward to seeing you on campus in the near future.

Sincerely,

Nathaniel E. Conard P ’09, ’11

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When I addressed the student body during Convocation last September, I highlighted the fact that the 2008-09 academic year marked the 25th anniversary of Pingry’s move from Hillside to Martinsville. I explained that there are two important similarities between those who were involved with the move and those who attend Pingry today. One is their strong sense of community, and the other is their willingness to take risks.

This issue also explains Pingry’s new branding initiative, which was set in motion by the board of trustees two years ago. The initiative is the result of focus groups with current and prospective parents, alumni, and faculty, and it was undertaken to understand Pingry’s perception in the marketplace and then proactively shape that perception.

From the Editor

Letter to the Editor

This is a short note to express my sadness at learning of Rick Weiler’s death, but also my appreciation for the generous coverage which you gave it in the magazine (Winter 2009). I don’t know if I was counted as one of the three All-Americans who came from his lacrosse program, but that was one of the outcomes of his enthusiastic and smart coaching. My memories of lacrosse are the fondest of all the sports I played, even through college, and his abilities to make it fun while developing a highly-skilled team were crucial ingredients in my love of the game.

- John Ratichek ’63

Pingry Collegiate Athletes In response to our list of alumni who have been playing Division I or III collegiate athletics (The Pingry Review, Winter 2009, page 52), several members of the Pingry community contacted us with additional names.

Just as we did for athletics in the previous issue of The Pingry Review, we probed Pingry’s history to write this issue’s cover story about the silver anniversary of the school’s move from Hillside to Martinsville.

Several resources proved invaluable: a special film produced by Pingry’s Alumni and Development Office (there is a link to watch the film at www.pingry.org), the book Through Mem’ry’s Haze: A Personal Memoir

by Bill Beinecke ’31, The Pingry Record (the student newspaper), and the magazine Progressive Architecture.

A remarkable team effort, led by and involving many members of the Pingry community, made the Martinsville Campus a reality.

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Speaking of anniversaries, Pingry will soon be celebrating its 150th anniversary, including a special issue of this magazine. If you would like to share ideas that we could consider for coverage, or if you have other story ideas, please feel free to contact us.

Sincerely,

Greg Waxberg ’96 Communications Writer gwaxberg@pingry.org

Alix Watson ’05 (Cornell University, Division I squash) Caitlin Fitzgerald ’06 (Emory University, Division III softball) Michelle Aueron ’07 (George Washington University, Division I soccer) Katherine Sheeleigh ’07 (Harvard University, Division I soccer) Tyler Reichert ’08 (Bowdoin College, Division III football)

Explanation of the “P” Throughout the magazine, “P” after a person’s name signifies he or she is the parent of a current Pingry student or a Pingry alumnus or alumna.

The Pingry Review Wins National Honors The Pingry Review has been honored by the National School Public Relations Association (NSPRA) in the magazine category of its 2009 Publications and Electronic Media Awards program, which recognizes outstanding education publications and electronic media programs.

The Winter 2009 and Summer/Fall 2008 issues each received the Award of Excellence. For more information: www.nspra.org.

A Message from the Chair One of the articles in this issue of The Pingry Review describes the school’s new branding identity, which has been in the making for a couple of years. As you will read, many focus groups formed the backbone of the study, and it was gratifying that almost everyone who participated in the focus groups said they most associate “excellence” with Pingry’s name.

For almost 150 years, Pingry’s mission has been to provide students with the most accomplished teachers and stimulating curriculum for all subjects, thereby ensuring a comprehensive academic environment. Now, thanks to these focus groups, we know that the community perceives the excellence that Pingry strives to maintain.

Also, as any alumnus or alumna, faculty, or staff member knows, the Honor Code is a unique and crucial part of Pingry’s culture that differentiates the school from almost every other school. Thus, “Honor” joins “Excellence” in the new brand.

It is also our pleasure, in this issue, to acknowledge the individuals responsible for Pingry’s move to the Martinsville Campus. Some of these men have served as Chairs of the Board, and it is an honor for me to try to continue upholding the standards they established.

Sincerely,

Jack Brescher ’65, P ’99 Chair, Board of Trustees

Installation of The John Taylor Babbitt ’07 Memorial Field Scoreboard In the Winter 2009 issue of The Pingry Review, we reported about the dedication of Pingry’s first synthetic turf field, The John Taylor Babbitt ’07 Memorial Field.

Thanks to the generosity of the Lan family, Pingry was able to purchase a scoreboard for the field,

which was installed on May 12, 2009. On May 13, Mr. Babbitt’s mother, JoAnne Babbitt P ’07, ’09, and LeeAnne Lan P ’02, ’07, ’09, flipped the switch to light the scoreboard for the first time.

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Attending the “Flipping the Switch” ceremony for the The John Taylor Babbitt ’07 Memorial Field Scoreboard were, from left, JoAnne Babbitt P ’07, ’09, Cameron Lan ’09, John’s grandfather John Babbitt, LeeAnne Lan P ’02, ’07, ’09, Headmaster Nat Conard P ’09, ’11, John’s brother Andrew ’09, Director of Athletics Gerry Vanasse P ’14, Austin Lan ’07, and Miller Bugliari ’52, P ’86, ’90, ’97

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25 Years in

Martinsville A Calculated Risk that Paid Big Dividends Time flies! Pingry’s Martinsville Campus opened a quarter-century ago, and it has been almost 40 years since a crucial meeting took place that prompted the Pingry community to understand the importance of moving from Hillside to Bernards Township. The story of the move shows how Pingry conquered numerous obstacles to ensure that the school could prosper in a more advantageous location.

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Pressure was also building for Pingry to admit girls to all grades (the school initially planned to make its move on a coordinated basis with the Kent Place School, and it would become co-educational on its own in the fall of 1974). That decision, coupled with Pingry’s 1974 merger with the Short Hills Country Day School, a feeder school for Pingry, meant that more space was needed for a growing student body.

He was admittedly very nervous. In December 1969, former Trustee William S. Beinecke ’31, P ’61, ’64 visited Robert W. Parsons, then chair of Pingry’s Board of Trustees, to strongly suggest that The Pingry School needed to relocate. To where, exactly, he was not sure, but Mr. Beinecke was concerned about Pingry’s future and felt that the school needed to move west from its Hillside Campus.

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Why was Mr. Beinecke so nervous? It had been only 16 years since Pingry had moved from its previous location in Bill Beinecke ’31, P ’61, ’64 Elizabeth to the Hillside Campus, which meant that it had not even been 20 years since Mr. Parsons had dealt with the difficulties of acquiring land, planning the construction, and fundraising for the earlier move. In addition, the Hillside Campus was in excellent condition, and four facilities had been added to the building since it opened—a pool, second gymnasium, science wing, and library.

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“Here I had the temerity to suggest to Bob Parsons that all his excellent work should be set aside. I was suggesting that Pingry should start over again, that we should junk his enterprise—or sell it if we could—and move the school to an as-yet-undetermined new location. I had no idea how Bob would react to my proposal,” Mr. Beinecke writes in his book Through Mem’ry’s Haze: A Personal Memoir.

Former Headmaster Scotty Cunningham ’38, P ’78, ’80, who became President of Pingry during the move, and Trustee Fred Bartenstein, Jr. P ’68, ’70, ’72, ’75

But Bill Beinecke had concrete reasons for suggesting the move, and many people in the Pingry community now consider him a visionary because of his foresight. First, he knew that many European cities had prospered near the intersections of major highways, so he felt that Pingry should move about 20 miles west to an area near the future intersections of Interstates 78 and 287, even though I-78 was still under construction and there was a gap through most of Union County. At the same time, the commute to Hillside was becoming too long for many Pingry families, who also had to navigate increasingly difficult road congestion to get to the campus.

Second, he knew that the population from which Pingry could draw students was moving west and expanding; there were not as many potential students in the neighboring Elizabeth and Newark areas. The school needed to be near Summit, Short Hills, Madison, Morristown, and Bernardsville, among other areas. Pingry was losing its ability to attract the best students because of competition from schools in better locations, like Newark Academy, which had also moved.

It turned out that Mr. Parsons not only agreed with Mr. Beinecke’s reasoning, but also offered to look at possible land. The proposal to move was later presented to the members of the board, but their reactions were mixed, so Mr. Beinecke made them an offer: they could look for land while they were deciding if the school should move. If they found property they liked, he would buy it, but sell it to Pingry if the move took place.

Unexpectedly, the acquisition of some land became a possibility.

Dick Mixer, a local surveyor, told Mr. Beinecke that he had an option on some property in Bernards Township (property originally suggested by then-Board member Nicholas C. “Connie” English ’29, P ’60, ’71) and described the property to him. Pingry wanted this land, so Mr. Beinecke bought it—the 94-acre Loft property.

After the board decided to move, the school bought two adjacent tracts, including the 72-acre Denton property and 16-acre Ferrovechio property.

The three biggest hurdles that Pingry had to overcome to complete the move were fundraising, establishing sewerage for the new building, and selling the Hillside property.

Mr. Parsons was the chief fundraiser.

Trustee William “Mac” M. Bristol III ’39, P ’69 was active with fundraising, along with fellow Trustees David M. Baldwin ’47, P ’75, ’76, ’78, ’81, Joseph

[consider] him our role model,” says Honorary Trustee Bill Engel ’67.

G. Engel ’35, P ’67, ’70, and John P. Bent, Jr. P ’80, ’82, ’84, all of whom were integral to the move as members of the Board.

The practical matter of sewerage was a major, prolonged frustration. The problem was that sewerage disposal within Bernards Township was not then available, so, in order to Groundbreaking in April 1982 secure a building permit, Pingry had to consider other whose photograph now hangs by alternatives to get governthe entrance to the Martinsville ment approval of a disposal system.

Campus. Mr. Bartenstein, a memThese options included an eventual ber of Pingry’s board since 1964, connection to a different municipal took early retirement from Merck or a regional system; constructing an and became chair of the board in on-site disposal facility; or trucking February 1979, succeeding Henry away sewerage on a daily basis.

H. Hoyt, Jr. ’45.

Ultimately, through the passage of time, hard work, and quite a bit of luck, Pingry reached an agreement with the Warren Township Sewerage Authority to tap into its system temporarily until its flow could be redirected into the Middlebrook Trunk of the Somerset-Raritan regional system, which was being enlarged at that time.

“He started to organize the problems, and then attack them. He devoted his life to [the move] for the next three or four years, through countless obstacles and countless frustrations.

Nobody else had the combination of ability, persistence, intelligence, diplomacy, and time to get all of that done. Those of us who have been board chairs subsequent to Fred all

The man who took the leadership role to coordinate the ideas of Pingry’s board members, negotiate with these agencies, attend meetings, and write letters was Trustee Fred Bartenstein, Jr. P ’68, ’70, ’72, ’75,

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Selling the Hillside property was the major task for David Baldwin ’47, who operated several real estate companies in New York. He tried to find buyers and determine the value of the Hillside Campus. After some potential sales did not come to fruition, an approach was made through a New Jersey State agency that resulted in stimulating the interest of Kean College, a state-operated college in the immediate vicinity of the school. By 1980, Pingry’s asking price had dropped to $4.25 million; eventually, the state negotiated with Pingry to drop the price to $3.9 million, and the Hillside property was sold on November 18, 1981.

Another problem that surfaced was the design of the new building. Mr. Parsons and others wanted a traditional, Colonial design reminiscent of the Hillside Campus, but construction costs were rising, and the cost of the original style became prohibitively expensive for Pingry to afford. Following review of a number of architectural alternatives and a visit by Mr. Bartenstein and Mr. Cunningham to a mecca of modern architectural style—Columbus, Indiana—the firm of Hardy Holzman

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As if that were not a big enough obstacle, Pingry also had to deal with the Bernards Township Planning Board, Bernards Township Sewerage Authority, Bernards Township Engineering Department, Bernards Township Board of Health, Warren Township Sewerage Authority, Somerset-Raritan Valley Sewerage Authority, Bridgewater Township Planning Board, and Somerset County Planning Board, among many others.

Around the same time, it became obvious that running the school and coordinating the move were too much for one person to handle as headmaster. Thus, Headmaster Scotty Cunningham ’38 became President of Pingry with the specific responsibility of working with Mr. Bartenstein on the move and raising money. Assistant Headmaster David Wilson ’59 became Headmaster in 1980.

Pfeiffer Associates was selected and the current design was introduced.

The school’s modern architecture, both outside and inside, took many people by surprise.

The architect, Norman Pfeiffer, wanted the building to define an outdoor space so that students would feel the sense of a campus, rather than a building without a particular shape.

The aqua clock tower entrance, clad in terra-cotta tile, projects outward as a semidetached portico; the clock was intended to evoke the memory of the Hillside Campus.

The red concrete block of the exterior was chosen for three reasons: it is indigenous to the northeastern United States; the architects felt that the aqua of the clock tower needed contrast; and it recalls the red exterior of the Hillside Campus. The front wings of the building are meant to form a yard behind the building.

The zigzagging rear wings of the building are white metal. (These details received national publicity when Pingry was featured in the August 1984 issue of Progressive Architecture magazine.)

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Inside, exposed pipes are visible throughout the school; this design was chosen for philosophical reasons.

“The elements that make up a building should be exposed so you can tell the truth about what happens in the building. It is an educational device so that students can learn how a real building works and operates,” Mr. Pfeiffer says.

One of the most unusual aspects of the new building, for students and faculty members, proved to be a few open classrooms. They were located at the end of each corridor. These “classrooms

No. of communities where Pingry students live Fall of 1984: 87 Fall of 2009: 112 (29 percent increase)

Applicants to Grade 9 Fall of 1984: 89 Fall of 2009: 216 (142 percent increase) without walls” meant that the hallway and cafeteria noise made it almost impossible for students and teachers to concentrate or hear each other during classes. These classrooms were also included for philosophical reasons.

“They served as recognition that students didn’t always have to be behind closed doors. The architecture encouraged informal meetings of students and allowed students to see through the building,” Mr. Pfeiffer says. Open classrooms lasted for only a few months.

Nevertheless, the positives outweighed the negatives. The new three-story building was almost 25 percent larger than the old two-story building; the 200-acre campus was 40 percent larger than the previous campus; there were 7,000 more square feet of classroom space; and there were 2,000 more square feet of library

One of the “open classrooms” at the end of a hallway

space. There was a new feeling of spaciousness and brightness. New athletic facilities included more fields, a 6-lane pool with a balcony viewing area, and an all-weather track.

“The new campus … provided Pingry opportunities to expand and upgrade our facilities, especially with regards to athletics, the sciences, and fine arts. It was a brilliant and visionary stroke,” says David Wilson ’59.

A ceremonial groundbreaking took place on April 10, 1982; the construction contract was signed in June 1982; and September 1983 was set as the target completion date. September proved to be too soon, but, even though the building was not complete when the school year started, plans were made to move around Thanksgiving. Pingry’s normal Thanksgiving Break lasts five days, but, in 1983, Headmaster Wilson extended the break to accommodate the move, which began on November 19. A system was established for color-coding every item in every room to ensure an accurate move.

“It was really fun. It was really a joyous occasion, the way everyone was involved and everyone pitched in,” says English faculty member Dean Sluyter, who joined Pingry in 1977.

Almost all of the work was completed by May 1984 at a total cost of $23 million. A Dedication Committee had been established for dedicating classrooms and other parts of the school as a way to honor donors and some of Pingry’s earlier master faculty members. The committee members were Mr. Wilson ’59, Harold W. Borden, Jr. ’62, Mr. Bristol ’39, Mr. Engel ’67, Edward Kenyon ’46, and William S. Hatch III P ’88,

’89. They also decided to dedicate the campus to Fred Bartenstein in recognition for all he had done to make the new campus a reality.

“Fred Bartenstein was better than all the rest [of those who were the most active in the move], by far, and is the most responsible for the success of the Pingry move in every way, shape, and form,” says Mac Bristol ’39 in Pingry’s commemorative film that tells the story of the move.

space for fields, among other factors—Pingry has been thriving in Martinsville.

The school has been able to open its doors to thousands of additional students, a fulfillment of Mr. Beinecke’s vision.

Mr. Bent, who was also interviewed for Pingry’s film, considers the school’s move essential to Pingry’s New Jersey Governor Thomas Kean P ’86, ’92 and Headmaster Dave development. “The move to Wilson ’59 at the campus dedication on May 12, 1984 Martinsville has proven to generous gesture as a gift to the be one of the very best things that school. Originally, Pingry was going Pingry has ever done. It has put The new Martinsville Campus to re-pay him for the mortgage on Pingry on the map. It has shown was formally dedicated on May 12, the land. After a period of time, he the world that 1984. New Jersey Governor Thomas decided to remove the school’s obliwe are serious Watch the comKean was among those present— gation to pay and allow Pingry to about our pursuit memorative film, his children Reed ’86, Thomas, Jr. spend the money in more worthwhile of education. a production of ’86, and Alexandra ’92 attended ways. In 1991, he cancelled Pingry’s It has enabled Pingry—along with former debt on the land.

Pingry’s Alumni Pingry to posiHeadmasters E. Laurence Springer, tion itself as one For many reasons—the larger numand Development Charles B. Atwater ’31, P ’63 and of the leading ber of communities represented in Office, on Scotty Cunningham ’38, P ’78, ’80. the student body, the larger appliindependent Pingry’s web site, In addition to proposing the move cant pool, the ease of accessing day schools in www.pingry.org. and buying the largest piece of the campus from Interstate 78 and the country,” property, Mr. Beinecke made another surrounding highways, and more he says.

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The Martinsville Campus today with “The Beginning of Wisdom” statue by Robert Shure, a gift of Barbara and David Baldwin ’47, P ’75, ’76, ’78, ’81, in the foreground

The Big Move

Missing Baseball Fields, Oddities in Desk Drawers, and Other Stories

By English faculty member Kim Kicenuik ’02

Anyone who has experienced a moving day knows that the process can be arduous, yet exciting. Pingry’s “big move” was no exception. During Thanksgiving Break in 1983, members of the Pingry community boxed up, loaded up, and relocated the Hillside Campus to the new Martinsville facility. As with any moving day, there were a few tiresome chores, a few surprises, and plenty of memories. Here are reflections on Pingry’s move—from the movers themselves.

Lydia Geacintov P ’84, ’88, Director of Studies

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provided light and warmth; hallways were spacious and filled with light, and the fields for athletics were numerous. Students found ways to go into the woods to explore…And so, slowly, it became home to us all.

moving company dismantle the windows of the second-story library to allow the stacks to be lowered, intact, from the second-story library into the moving trucks.

While the building was novel, it was not entirely new. Because the faculty had been given tours of the Martinsville Campus by the architect and builders, they had a general idea of the floor plan, and, even before these tours, students had departed on field trips the previous spring to plant hundreds of daffodils that validated the property’s tax-free status. Since the campus had been used as a ‘classroom,’ the school was in compliance with New Jersey tax regulations.

Jane Roxbury P ’01, Foreign language faculty member

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There was so I was a new faculmuch to pack and ty member at unpack, such as Pingry, and I was lamps, the pews astonished by how from the old chawell everyone pel, and the whole Ted Li, English worked together organ for which faculty member and collaborated Tony duBourg built a special box.

I remember the on all of the details. Each departThe new building felt different— last few days as a ment decided what needed to be spacious, bright, noisy—more like a [period of] grand moved, how it would be labeled, and shopping mall than a school. The housekeeping and who was responsible for it. It was a students were excited to have carpetinventorying. I great time for discussions: “Why do ing in the classrooms, but there were remember watchwe need this stuff?” and “What do some interesting elements of the new ing the library we accomplish with it?” It was almost building that took some getting used like a family that was moving to. On a whim, I brought and needed to make decithe pencil sharpener from sions: to go forward, yet keep my old room, which was dear memories from the past good, since the new facility alive. I remember juniors and had no sharpeners. There seniors hanging out of winwere also a number of open dows and taking pictures. classrooms, with no walls Group pictures were being on the hall side. I taught taken by students all over the French during 4th period campus. Some students signed in one of those classrooms. their names with chalk on It was so noisy, that set up floors. [In the new building] lasted about a week. When the skylights, which were we moved into the new The library at the Hillside Campus was disassembled over the weekend of totally transparent then, November 19, 1983. Movers lifted the books from a second-floor window.

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ago, I was amazed at how much of a difference the architecture can make.

All of the little kids make tons of noise, but it is much quieter than the [main] building.

Dean Sluyter P ’90, ’98, English faculty member During the last few days on the old campus, a number of items were designated to be left behind.

As it turned out, this included a number of specimens from the biology classrooms. Three or four boys, in a mood of high hilarity, pulled a stuffed possum or badger or some such down the hallway at the end of a piece of rope that they had fashioned into a leash. My most vivid memory involves something that happened as I was clearing out my desk, which was naturally stuffed full of old papers. As I stuck my hand into the dark recesses in the back of a drawer, I felt something soft. I pulled it out and discovered to my horror that it was a severed toucan’s head. To this day I can still feel that thing in my hand.

Manny Tramontana P ’85, ’87, Mathematics Department Chair

Twenty-five years seem to have passed with the blink of an eye. It feels like just yesterday we were packing our lockers at the Hillside Campus so Pingry could move to the country. It was a busy but exciting time, with a splash of uncertainty—the stress of college applications, the end of field hockey season, and the holidays approaching. Here we were, moving to a new building, a new neighborhood, a new Pingry.

Hillside was going to be history: no more SAC (Student Activities Committee) assemblies squeezed into the Chapel on Fridays, no more dark back staircases leading to Mr. Bio’s room…what were we going to do without the Lounge or the Secret Garden? We were leaving the comforts of the Country Day School we knew and heading for the space-aged new Pingry campus.

The first few days in Martinsville were carefree. Everyone was adjusting; students and teachers were late for classes because every hallway looked the same. It was like being a freshman in a new high school—yet we were seniors!

Where was Mr. Allen’s office?

How could we find Madame Geacintov or Mr. Moffat for extra help? The new lounge was tiny, and the auditorium was vast.

The only constant was the peanut butter and jelly bins at lunch.

Our skepticism diminished daily as we adjusted to our

new environment. The familiar plaques began to be displayed on the walls to remind us that the spirit of Pingry, from Hillside, was still here. But this place was cool…a great senior parking lot, new cafeteria, and everything was cutting-edge. When you daydreamed during class—not that I ever did—there were trees and fields as far as the eye could see.

We now had more classroom space and more land to do great things at Pingry. With these new fields, I was lucky enough to play on Pingry’s first girls’ lacrosse team in the spring of 1984. Big Blue was there to cheer for us; even he was getting used to the new digs. The move was a time of positive change for Pingry.

Today, I frequently walk the halls and fields of the Martinsville Campus because my three children—Luke ’11, Annie ’12, and Meg ’15—are attending Pingry.

It’s pretty neat to share my stories of getting lost in those same halls.

We’ve looked at the old athletic team photos, laughed as we’ve walked past the pottery room remembering my off-center “creations,” and reminisced about the pay phone in the front hall where I called my mom to find out if the envelopes from colleges were big or small.

I feel so lucky to have experienced six months in Martinsville, to share in a small piece of history, and to be a member of the first class to graduate from the new pink and green Pingry School.

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In order to maintain our tax status, I brought my computer class out to the unfinished building to have class. We transported the computers and all. There was no baseball field when we finally moved in. They forgot to put in the infields, so it was “on the road” the first year. When they finally finished the diamonds, [they] put the players’ benches in cement on the fields—in fair territory.

Current Parent Betsy Lucas Vreeland ’84 Recalls the Transition from Hillside to Martinsville

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Pingry Community Ensured Success of the Move with the New Building Fund Fundraising for the move to Martinsville was an elaborate effort.

Pingry established the New Building Fund to finance the project, especially because inflation was affecting construction costs and Pingry was not sure how much money it would receive from the sale of the Hillside Campus.

“We asked … members of the Pingry community if they would help identify [possible donors], and that resulted in a very long list. There was no other [fundraising] activity [for the new building] beyond that, except for the Annual Fund. The New Building Fund was it,” says former Development Director Rob Hall ’54, P ’79.

A group of trustees was involved in assuring the New Building Fund’s success, including Mac Bristol ’39, Dave Baldwin ’47, Bill Beinecke ’31, Bob Parsons, Joe Engel ’35, and Fred Bartenstein, Jr. Among those trustees was John Bent, Jr., who became a Pingry trustee in the early 1970s and contributed to the New Building Fund in the 1980s. “I was convinced that the move of the campus to a new building was essential to assure the sound future of the school,” he says.

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Many other alumni demonstrated their support of the initiative and contributed to the fundraising efforts, including Helmut Weymar ’54. “I agreed with the idea that the center of gravity of Pingry’s likely then-future sending district had shifted significantly westward from Hillside, and Bill Beinecke’s land gift provided inspiring leadership.

Beyond that, my three years at Pingry played a critical role in my education, probably surpassing in importance undergraduate college and graduate school,” he says.

Below is a list of all those donors to the “New Building Fund” (19681989)—these individuals, foundations, and organizations made the Martinsville Campus a reality for generations of future Pingry alumni: Anonymous Mr. Alexander McF. Ackley ’26 Mr. and Mrs. Peter A. Alexander Mr. and Mrs. Vincent J. Apruzzese Mr. and Mrs. David M. Baldwin ’47 Mr. Fred Bartenstein, Jr. Mr. Albert G. Bauer ’45 Mr. and Mrs. William S. Beinecke ’31 Mr. and Mrs. John P. Bent, Jr. Mr. William M. Bristol III ’39 Mr. and Mrs. Atherton Bristol ’41 Mr. and Mrs. Brian T. Bristol ’69 Mr. and Mrs. E. Freeman Bunn ’53 Dr. and Mrs. H. Franklin Bunn ’53 Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Hamilton Campbell ’49 Mr. J. Robert Campbell, Jr. ’57 City Investing Co. Foundation Mr. and Mrs. William F. Conger Mr. John T. Connor and Mrs. Mary Connor Corbin-Carter Foundation, Inc. Dr. John W. Cornwall ’66 Mr. and Mrs. Joseph C. Cornwall Mr. Joseph F. Cornwall ’67 Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Daeschler Mr. H. Corbin Day Egenolf Early Childhood Center E.G. Grassmann Trust Mr. Joseph G. Engel ’35 and Mrs. Jane D. Engel Mr. William V. Engel ’67 Mr. Barton C. English ’68 Mr. and Mrs. John H. Evans Mr. Robert B. Gibby ’31 Mr. Arthur M. Goldberg Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Hall ’54 Mr. and Mrs. Edward B. Hauser ’56 Mr. Richard H. Herold ’47 Mr. John W. Holman, Jr. ’55 Barbara and Amos Hostetter ’54 Mr. and Mrs. Charles O. Hoyt ’47 Mr. Henry H. Hoyt, Jr. ’45 Hyde & Watson Foundation Institute for Science & Technology J.M.R. Barker Foundation John Ben Snow Foundation

Mrs. Helen Hauser Jordan The Honorable and Mrs. Thomas H. Kean Mr. Edward T. Kenyon ’46 Mr. and Mrs. Warren S. Kimber, Jr. ’52 Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Krantz, Jr. Mr. Carl J. Kreitler, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Walter D. Long ’63 Mr. and Mrs. Donald A. Macrae Mr. and Mrs. Douglas B. Macrae ’77 Mr. Hugo B. Meyer N.R. Leavitt Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Albin B. Nelson Mr. and Mrs. Stephan F. Newhouse ’65 Mr. Wilfred H. Norman Mr. and Mrs. Roger B. Parsons ’55 Mrs. Harriet Perlmutter-Pilchik Mr. and Mrs. Werner B. Peter Charles E. & Joy C. Pettinos Foundation Mr. Robert D. Pierson ’53 Mr. and Mrs. William G. Reif Mrs. J.F. Reissen Mr. William C. Ridgway, Jr. Mr. William C. Ridgway III ’53 Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Rooke ’43 Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Rooke, Jr. ’70 Rotary Club of Westfield Mr. and Mrs. Frederic L. Rowe Mr. and Mrs. F. Heidl Slocum Mr. Sefton Stallard ’47 and Mrs. Ann W. Stallard Standish Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Henry G. Stifel The Pingry Alumni Association Mr. and Mrs. Edward D. Thomas ’47 Mr. and Mrs. Harold S. Thomson ’39 Mr. John Timko, Jr. Union Foundation Unitrust for the Pingry Corporation Mr. Henry P. van Ameringen ’48 Mr. and Mrs. Edward A. Ward II ’52 Caroline and F. Helmut Weymar ’54 Mr. John C. Whitehead Mr. Louis P. Wiener Mrs. Edith M. Loeser Williams The Willits Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Henry F. Wood, Jr.

Pingry’s Counseling Services Enhanced by Memorial Fund

From left: June Carver, Judy Shepard, Sean Carver ’14, Emma Carver ’09, Calvin Carver, Chloe Carver ’11, Reeve Carver ’14, and Anne DeLaney ’79, P ’09, ’11, ’14

The Gilbert Harry Carver ’79 Memorial Endowment Fund was established on June 26, 2008, to honor the memory of Gilbert “Gibb” Carver ’79, who passed away in March 2008. It was created by his father Calvin and stepmother June Carver, sister Marcey Carver, and brother Calvin “Chip” Carver, Jr. ’77, and Chip’s wife Anne DeLaney ’79.

“It really surprised me that, even though racial segregation is over, sexual orientation is still an ongoing battle. The fact that there are people out there who are anti-gay is appalling,” wrote one Form II student after listening to Miss Shepard. Another Form II student wrote: “Mrs. Shepard talked about acceptance, something which is very important in our community. I liked her point about her disdain for the word ‘tolerance.’”

Miss Shepard asserts that “tolerance” does not apply to a person. Someone might “tolerate” a bad hair day, but society should not “tolerate” people.

Everyone must be accepted and respected.

The Fund may also provide financial assistance for professional counseling that some students may need, but be unable to afford. The Safe Room, an area within the school that has been set aside for students who need a comforting location, will receive

occasional upgrades. If funding permits, the endowment may also support social activities for groups affiliated with the Safe Room.

This Fund supplements Pingry’s current programs that provide assistance, support, and counseling for all students, but particularly helps those students who may need enhanced assistance as a result of emotional, psychological, physical, personal, or family circumstances.

School counselor Pat Lionetti is grateful for the Carver family’s generosity. “The Pingry administration has always been supportive of our counseling services, including having two full-time counselors on the faculty.

The Carver family’s generous grant gives us the opportunity to enhance those services by implementing programs and sponsoring speakers that we wouldn’t ordinarily be able to offer in the counseling realm. Mrs. Shepard’s visit is an example of a new initiative. There will also be more emphasis on drug and alcohol awareness issues,” she says.

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The Endowment provides funding for an annual guest speaker who will address the student body about topics such as self-esteem, acceptance, avoidance of illegal drugs and alcohol use, and similar issues of particular value to young people. On March 31, 2009, the first annual lecture sponsored by the Fund was delivered by Judy Shepard, whose son Matthew was murdered 11 years ago in an antigay hate crime in Laramie, Wyoming.

She emphasized the acceptance and respect of everyone, regardless of their

sexual orientation, ethnicity, or religion, and urged the elimination of anti-gay language in schools.

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Seniors Promote the Importance of Helping Future Students Introduced in the fall of 2008, the Senior Class Giving Committee comprises 16 senior leaders who act as ambassadors for The Pingry Fund to their class. They were identified by the faculty as respected leaders who are enthusiastic about Pingry and represent a diversity of social groups.

The committee was formed to educate seniors about giving back to Pingry before they graduate and transition into the alumni community; it is a more proactive approach to fundraising than has been taken with seniors in past years.

The members of the committee created events such as the “90 Days to ’09 Graduation” reception and the “50 Days to ’09 Graduation” breakfast. Each senior is also responsible for a group of 8-10 classmates, from whom they solicit gifts.

“We have found that it is much more meaningful if a peer asks for contributions and sets an example than if someone from our office does.

It’s about the personal connection, and it makes a stronger case for philanthropic support of the school

as they become alumni,” says Laura Stoffel, assistant director of Alumni Relations and Annual Giving.

Ian Martin-Katz ’09 and Jennifer Lang ’09 are co-chairs of the committee. They want their classmates to understand that Pingry’s alumni network can offer opportunities for students, both professionally and socially, and that Pingry needs alumni support to help cover its operating expenses.

“We hope to make seniors aware of the important roles that alumni play at Pingry and the advantages of staying involved with the school after graduation,” Mr. Martin-Katz says.

Two committee members, Eliza Ricciardi ’09 and Conor Starr ’09, spoke at the “90 Days to Graduation” reception about why they give to Pingry, and both emphasized that they want to give back to Pingry to ensure that future students will be able to enjoy similarly rewarding experiences at the school. For Ms. Ricciardi, who has been inspired by the number of alumni who stay connected to Pingry, her calling card was drama.

“[The Macrae Theater] was an alumni donation to the school, and this extremely generous offer has changed my life and the lives of hundreds of kids who have performed there.

So many memories were created on that stage, and I don’t think I could ever fully tell the Macrae family how much I appreciate that donation.

Because an alumnus felt compelled to give back to his school, they have made me a different person and have made my experience at Pingry so much better,” she says.

Mr. Starr is grateful for all that Pingry has done for him in four years. “I would not trade my time at Pingry for anything. I have had great classes, won championships, traveled the world, and met incredible people.

Pingry provided me with so many opportunities to do things that I will never forget,” he says.

Total Participation: 46 percent Total Dollars Raised for the 2009 Pingry Fund: $3,394.36

16 the pingry review The Senior Class Giving Committee. 1st row, from left: Catherine Lipper ’09, Eliza Ricciardi ’09, Taylor Demkin ’09, and Rachel Adeleye ’09.

2nd row, from left: Giancarlo Riotto ’09, James White ’09, Liz Roberts ’09, Grant Thomas ’09, Dan Kissel ’09, Matt Rybak ’09, Ian Martin-Katz ’09, Conor Starr ’09, Jenn Lang ’09, Matt Fechter ’09 , and Louis Schermerhorn ’09

Christian Hoffman ’94 Assumes Leadership of SCLC

A number of young alumni are members of the Second Century Leadership Council (SCLC), whose mission is to create fundraisingfocused leadership opportunities for young alumni. The council meets a few times each year to discuss fundraising efforts and how they can engage more young alumni in giving to The Pingry Fund. SCLC’s new president is Christian Hoffman ’94, whose wife Jane ’94 co-founded the council in 2004 with Todd Hirsch ’92.

Society members enjoy exclusive events, networking opportunities, and other benefits during the year.

For example, Dylan’s Candy Bar, a candy shop in Manhattan, was the site of a young alumni event this past February. There was also a reception at the Boat Basin Café in New York for young alumni and faculty on June 4.

Mr. Hoffman has been involved with the SCLC for three years because he wants to give back to Pingry and assist in maintaining its leadership position among private schools. He served as vice president during the 2007-08 academic year and now has several goals as president.

“I want to hit our dollar target [the Society raised just shy of $50,000 for the 2009 Pingry Fund] and increase participation of younger alumni in both the Council and Society. I’ve been talking to the seniors this year and discussing goals and opportunities with the Pingry Alumni Association to stimulate interest,” he says.

Mr. Hoffman participated in the firstever “90 Days to Graduation” event, where he spoke to current members of the Class of 2009 about the council and how they can participate in making a difference for Pingry after they graduate.

Anyone who is interested in joining SCLS should contact Laura Stoffel in the Office of Alumni and Development at lstoffel@pingry.org.

Amanda Freeman ’94 Rebecca Frost ’94 Christian Hoffman ’94, President Jane (Shivers) Hoffman ’94 Jennifer Joel ’94 Adam Plotkin ’94 Joshua Kazam ’95 Colin Bennett ’96 Anthony Bowes ’96 Thomas Diemar ’96 Chris Franklin ’96 Bess Oransky ’96 Rahul Vinnakota ’96 Kevin O’Brien ’97 Heath Freeman ’98 Kevin Schmidt ’98 Vanessa Chandis ’98 Julian Scurci ’99 Allison (Manly) Brunhouse ’00 Bif Brunhouse ’00 Tim Moyer ’02 Charlie Diemar ’02 Lauren Callaghan ’02 Kathryn Roberts ’02 Terms Expiring in 2009 Thanks to Brad Bonner ’93 for his support of and activity in the Council.

Joining the Council for 2009-2010 Genie Makhlin ’95 Tyler Umbdenstock ’97 Emily (Haverstick) Umbdenstock ’97 Ben Lehrhoff ’99 Kate Martuscello ’00 John Anagnostis ’04 Katie Lawrence ’04

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The Council encourages giving within the Second Century Leadership Society (SCLS) and plans exclusive young alumni events.

SCLS membership is open to alumni within 15 years of their graduation from Pingry. The council solicits gifts from fellow Pingry graduates and organizes special events throughout the year aimed at strengthening the bond between young alumni and Pingry.

Those wishing to be members of the Society give to The Pingry Fund at a certain level each year: members of the Classes of 1994-2003 are asked to give $250 or more; and members of the Classes of 2004-2008 are asked to give $150 or more. Nineteen members of the Class of 2009 have committed to giving $25 each year during college with a culminating gift of $50, allowing them to join the Society. The individuals who donate at those levels each year are recognized as members of the SCLS, and many of these alumni later become members of the council. There are currently 77 alumni in the Society.

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“Academic excellence and the importance of the Honor Code in the daily life of each student set The Pingry School apart from other institutions.

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the school in the marketplace.

Jack Brescher ’65, P ’99

Chair of Pingry’s Board of Trustees

New Identity, Powerful Brand The seeds of the branding initiative are found in the five-year Strategic Plan. A primary goal of the plan is to continually attract the most exceptional students and faculty who will share the commitment to Pingry’s mission and vision.

The Strategic Plan also aims to develop the school’s resources by strengthening associations inside and outside the Pingry community in ways that set new standards for private school engagement, participation, and philanthropic support.

An enhanced marketing effort and a new branding initiative that proactively and accurately shape the image of The Pingry School are key ingredients for achieving these goals.

“Historically, Pingry had not done a lot to actively shape how the school is perceived in the community,” says Headmaster Nat Conard P ’09, ’11.

“We had a strong reputation, but it was based on word-of-mouth about what was happening at the school—not on what we told people was happening at the school.” Mr. Conard felt that Pingry should determine the community’s perception and develop a strategy for proactively shaping that perception.

“I was surprised and excited by the consistency of the perception that Pingry has such a strong academic program,” says branding consultant Mark Edwards. “It’s not unusual to hear a wide range of impressions.

But among virtually all responding constituencies inside and outside of Pingry—even families who only had a vague sense of the school—we heard consistently strong, positive impressions of Pingry’s academic program.

“Importantly,” Mr. Edwards says, “consistent impressions of the Pingry experience as best-in-class give the school a very strong platform for speaking broadly and effectively about ideas and values. Pingry is perceived as having figured out how to create a powerful academic environment. The school now has a perfect environment to share that knowledge far and wide and to solidify its position in the marketplace. Only a leader can do this credibly.

Communicating from this vantage point is quite an opportunity.”

“Excellence” relates to Pingry’s academics, athletics, arts, culture, faculty, students, staff, and curriculum. “Honor” relates to Pingry’s long history of instilling character, commitment, and integrity in each individual associated with the school, and to the ongoing adherence to Pingry’s Honor Code.

While short and simple, this addition promotes core values and is easy to recognize and remember. Placed with the Pingry name and seal, it will also reinforce the school’s true character consistently over time and bolster the school’s position and reputation.

The new logo is being integrated fully into the school’s identity in a phased approach, which began in 2008. It will be woven into the entire fabric of the school, from signage to strategic marketing materials.

The communications staff will serve as a centralized resource for brand use and will work with all Pingryrelated organizations to insure consistency and long-term sustainability of the brand.

Now, the name, the seal, and the wording “Excellence & Honor” are integrated into one strong branding symbol.

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The new approach to the Pingry brand was carefully developed with the help of a branding communications consultant, the board of trustees, and focus groups including current and prospective parents, alumni, and faculty.

So, what is new about Pingry’s identity and brand? The words “Excellence & Honor” have been added and now form a visual foundation for the Pingry name and seal.

[ School News ] Vicki Grant Adds a New Role to Her Pingry Résumé At various times during her 25-year Pingry career, English faculty member Vicki Grant considered applying for the position of Chair of the English department. After faculty member Chris Shilts stepped down last year as chair of the department to become head coach of the varsity football team, the timing was right for her to apply, and she was selected.

Mrs. Grant will become the new chair this fall.

“I really love curricular discussions, and I love this school. I love and respect my colleagues and believe in all of us leading together,” she says.

Mrs. Grant considers Pingry her family. Both she and her husband, science faculty member Tim Grant, have taught at Pingry for 25 years, and their two children are members of Pingry’s 13-Year Club—Thor ’03 and Joshua ’06.

As chair, Mrs. Grant will oversee the English department’s curriculum, among other responsibilities. Because department chairs comprise Pingry’s Academic Committee, she will also help shape the direction of the school by helping make decisions for the school’s curriculum. She is especially looking forward to helping shape her students’ futures.

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“The world is changing, so students need different skills to be good citizens and life-long critical thinkers and leaders. That is, perhaps, the most exciting part,” Mrs. Grant says.

As she wrote in her vision statement when applying for the position, “our mission is to teach children, not material.”

Mrs. Grant has taught most of the school’s English courses, in both the Middle and Upper Schools: English 8, English 9, English 10, American Literature, British and European Literature, World Literature (cocreator with English faculty member Ted Li), Creative Writing, Writing

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About Literature, Greek Drama, New Voices, and Literature by Women (creator). She also taught French, German, and Spanish for the Middle School when she arrived at Pingry, having minored in all three languages at Gordon College, where she earned her bachelor’s degree in English.

Students have also worked closely with her outside the classroom. Mrs. Grant coached junior varsity field hockey (1984), Middle School basketball (1984), and Middle School softball (1986 through the early 1990s), and she served as head of the Community Service program for three years during the early 1990s.

She has been designing costumes, props, and set pieces for many fall plays and winter musicals since 1995.

From 2001 to 2002, she held the Albert W. Booth Chair for Master Teachers; the late Mr. Booth taught Latin at Pingry from 1929 until 1993.

The award is given to a faculty member who has taught at Pingry for at least five years and who reflects those

qualities of honor, integrity, idealism, dedication to students, and reverence for scholarship which defined Mr. Booth’s life and work. “[Holding this Chair] was such a special honor for me because Albie was so kind to me when I came to Pingry as a second-year teacher. He always asked me how my classes were going.

He was a real inspiration, and I am very proud that I knew him so well,” Mrs. Grant says.

She currently holds the Senior Class Faculty Chair, a fund that honors a distinguished teacher and provides a stipend for professional and curricular development in his or her discipline.

Mrs. Grant has used some of those funds to purchase a Kindle—a slim, lightweight wireless reading device that can store more than 1,500 books. With the Kindle, she has been reading numerous books, and that has allowed her to recommend more titles to her students. She is also planning to apply to graduate school to study literature. In her words, “so many books, but so little time.”

Families Face Uncertain Economic Times, and Pingry Responds Two essential components of Pingry’s strategic mission are to attract, admit, and enroll outstanding students, and to provide them with an education of the highest quality. Therefore, a strong financial aid budget is essential to the school’s mission and future so that families who cannot afford to pay full tuition can still enroll in and remain at Pingry.

Although tuition for the 2009-10 academic year increased by 4.77 percent, that is Pingry’s lowest tuition increase in at least 20 years, and it is below the national average of tuition increases. In addition, Pingry is trying to reduce other costs that families have to pay during the year while reducing general operating costs.

“Because all private schools’ tuition has grown considerably over time, especially as compared to average growths in income, schools have become less accessible financially to more and more families. This makes financial aid more critical for us,” says Pingry Trustee Miriam Esteve P ’09, ’11, ’19, chair of a financial aid task force that the board formed in the fall of 2008. “Given the economic environment, we felt this [task force] was an important program in support of Pingry’s strategic mission.”

Largely due to the economy, a sizable number of current families who have recently experienced extreme financial hardship and could no longer afford Pingry’s full tuition, as well as new families who require assistance in order to attend the school, have been applying for and receiving financial aid. With this sudden increase in the number of families who need help, the board is addressing the school’s financial aid budget and requirements.

Half of the school’s endowment is restricted for financial aid funding and, until recently, that percentage was sufficient to meet the students’ needs. However, for the 2009-10 academic year, 45 current students needed financial assistance for the first time. This is a 49 percent increase over the 2008-09 academic year, placing a lot more pressure on the school’s endowment and its budget.

The board, seeking to increase the commitment to financial aid and reduce the burden on future operating budgets, has set a fundraising goal to increase the portion of the endowment that is designated for financial aid. The task force has also been reviewing how Pingry administers its financial aid program. Certain practices will continue, such as giving priority to existing families.

“One important change was an increase in our commitment to the program by significantly increasing the budget. This allowed us to address the large increase in requests from current families, while still funding some new admissions that resulted from our outreach efforts,” Ms. Esteve says.

A significant step that Pingry has taken to fundraise for financial aid involves The Pingry Fund—for the first time, the community can make donations specifically for current financial aid needs. The school has also recently received two commitments of $1 million, each designated for financial aid. Additional funding for financial aid—both endowment gifts and current operating gifts—is needed to allow Pingry to continue its current level of support and maintain its ability to respond to existing families who need financial assistance, as well as to admit new families who may need support in order to enroll.

If you are interested in learning more about supporting Financial Aid at Pingry, please contact Melanie Hoffmann, Office of Alumni & Development, (908) 647-7058 or mhoffmann@pingry.org.

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25 Years of Peer Leadership

[Wilson ’59] was on the lookout for such a program at the time,” Mr. Platt says.

Beginning with a three-day retreat in mid-September, the program consists of informal small groups—eight or nine freshmen and two senior Peer Leaders—that meet once each week for two trimesters. The first year, there were about a dozen Peer Leaders, and today there are about 30. Initially, Peer Group met during Conference Period, but Mr. Wilson decided that these meetings should take place during a scheduled class period, even though some of the faculty members were concerned that academics would be sacrificed.

During the September retreat, each group of freshmen was given string, a paper plate, a coffee filter, wooden sticks, and a solo cup. The students had to construct a vehicle for a raw egg that would be dropped from the gym ceiling without the egg breaking. 1st row, from left: Molly Schulman ’12, Marisa Werner ’12, and Madeline Higgins ’12. 2nd row, from left: Tom O’Reilly ’12, Becca Hamm Conard ’09, Brian Quinn ’09, Matt Chan ’12, Jacob Green ’12, and Nikki Oza ’12

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Pingry recognizes that making the transition to high school is not easy for freshmen because of academic and social pressures. To help students adjust, and to give them the opportunity to create closer bonds with their classmates, the school offers the Peer Group program as a requirement for all freshmen. Peer Leadership was introduced in January of 1984 and has now been a vital part of Pingry’s culture for 25 years.

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The idea originated with the Princeton Center for Leadership Training, developed by psychologist Sharon Powell. Former Pingry English faculty member John Platt heard about the center and introduced himself to Dr. Powell, who had established a program for older students to help younger students. She began a pilot program at Princeton High School, and Mr. Platt observed several of the sessions.

“As a 17-year-old, you realize that you’ve been seeing a person as a ‘face in the hallway,’ and you have this awakening that you’ve been looking at everybody this way.”

– Laura Yorke ’98 “I was sold on the concept, and I was eager to let Pingry administrators know what I had discovered. I never had to convince the administration that a mentoring program was needed. [Former Headmaster] Dave

“I wasn’t really worried about Pingry’s academics suffering, and I felt strongly that we should pay more attention to the affective side of things, especially in such a rigorous and competitive environment. We needed to give [Peer Group] some time and space of its own in order to make it effective and to make a statement about its importance and legitimacy,” Mr. Wilson says.

School counselors Pat Lionetti P ’85, ’88, ’89 and Mike Richardson have been advisors to Peer Group since its inception, but it is the group of carefully-chosen seniors who have the ongoing, direct interaction with the freshmen. The entire faculty is involved in the selection process, evaluating candidates on such factors as their ability to solve problems and a proven history of leadership—for example, leadership in classroom discussions or an activity like stage managing a drama production. Thus, references from teachers and coaches are crucial. Involvement in community service is important, as is being dependable. “We don’t really look at grades, but we try to choose kids who seem like they can also handle the amount of work that’s required by Peer Leadership,” Dr. Richardson says.

When grouping the freshmen, Mrs. Lionetti and Dr. Richardson try to separate cliques as much as possible, and one-third of each group consists of students who are new to Pingry.

This way, most of the people in each group do not know each other very well at first. “They don’t have to be best friends, but it helps them to become more open and inclusive,” Mrs. Lionetti says.

Faculty advisors are critical to the program’s success because, among other responsibilities, they meet with the seniors for three class periods each week and prepare them for their meetings with the freshmen by training the seniors in group dynamics and modeling the same activities they will do with the younger students. “The idea was to empower [the seniors] with the skills and procedures that would allow them to be group facilitators without adult intervention,” Mr. Platt says.

Other advisors have included former history faculty member Rick Bosland ’76 and former English faculty member and Admission Director Sherman English ’71, P ’89, ’91. Mr. Bosland taught at Pingry from 1981 to 1984, also attended the Princeton seminars, and liked the idea of peers leading peers. “There’s only so much that

Dr. English felt that the experience of being an advisor was rewarding because he watched the students grow as leaders and people, and he became a better teacher. “I learned a

“I was astounded by the thoughtfulness of the Peer Leaders when I met with them in Peer Group. I never realized how they felt about the world and each other.”

– Gail Castaldo lot about the social, emotional, and psychological development of students. I also learned a great deal about how to run a class,” he says.

Assistant Director of Admission and Coordinator of Financial Aid Allie Brunhouse ’00 entered Pingry as a freshman and liked the fact that Peer Group gave her a chance to unwind and meet her classmates while seniors shared their Pingry experiences. Then, when she became a Peer Leader, Ms. Brunhouse felt honored by her leadership responsibility. Now, working in the Admission office, she knows that the Peer Group program is of interest to prospective families.

“New families feel that [Peer Group] helps enormously with a student’s transition, and they’re confident that their child is going to have another outlet if they have any questions.

When somebody asks me about how students make a transition,

Peer Group is one of the first things I talk about,” Ms. Brunhouse says.

The topics in any given Peer Group meeting vary, but generally include role models, diversity, choosing friends, coping with stress, making behavioral choices, and recognizing eating disorders and other health problems. There also are timely discussions based on current events at school or in the world. But, no matter what the freshmen and seniors discuss, Mrs. Lionetti says that “Everyone has a story,” and former Peer Leader Laura Yorke ’98 agrees.

“As a 17-year-old, you realize that you’ve been seeing a person as a ‘face in the hallway,’ and you have this awakening that you’ve been looking at everybody this way,” Ms. Yorke says. She is also a faculty advisor and teaches English.

Perhaps even more significant than the topics are the actual conversations. According to Tina Rosenblum ’89, a Peer Leader during the 1988-89 academic year, the potential influence is enormous. “Attention, focus, and sensitivity are required for the meetings. You develop an awareness of what’s being said and the impact it can have on a student’s life. It made me think differently,” she says.

Dr. Rosenblum found that meaningful conversations with one’s peers about life’s events provide the opportunity to get insight into people’s experiences and feelings. “We just aired common experiences that you don’t realize are common until they’re out in the open.”

For all of the 25 years, Mrs. Lionetti and Dr. Richardson have provided guidance for the seniors in the event of a difficult situation. As Dr. Rosenblum points out, the Peer Leaders are not required to have all the answers all the time, so Peer Group truly is about leadership and transition, with as much assistance as possible from everyone involved in the program.

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French faculty member Gail Castaldo P ’00 was a faculty advisor from September 1987 to June 1999. She wanted to be an advisor because the students who were going to be seniors in the fall of 1987 had been studying French with her for three years, and she wanted to continue working with them. Interacting with the students outside of the structured nature and fact-based questions of a foreign language class proved to be a revelation. “I was astounded by the thoughtfulness of the Peer Leaders when I met with them in Peer Group. I never realized how they felt about the world and each other,” Mrs. Castaldo says.

faculty members, as figures of authority, can convey. The peers are a lot more ‘real’ to the freshmen than I could [have ever been], in terms of being empathetic,” he says.

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150 Combined Years of Teaching Six faculty members celebrated 25 years of teaching at Pingry during the 2008-09 academic year. The Pingry Alumni Association honored them in May as members of Magistri Maxime Laudandi (“Masters Most Greatly to be Praised”), teachers who have dedicated 25 or more years of service to Pingry.

Science faculty member Bill Bourne changed careers when he arrived at Pingry in the fall of 1984. He had been working for Drucker House Corporation, a small real estate development group. At one point, they offered him a job in St. Louis, Mo., overseeing a toll bridge that crosses the Mississippi River.

Because his wife was working in New Jersey, and he did not want to uproot her, Mr. Bourne decided that teaching might be fun “for a few years.” He had studied physics engineering at Washington and Lee University, so he joined Pingry as a physics teacher.

In addition to Physics and Honors Physics, he teaches “Science in the 21st Century,” which he created. “The primary reason [for the class] was to offer seniors an alternative to AP

biology, AP chemistry, or AP physics classes,” he says. This critical thinking course is intended to instill an awareness, greater understanding, and appreciation of science and technology as integral parts of everyday life.

Known for his phrase “think extremes,” Mr. Bourne wants all of his students to understand the topics they study in the context of the bigger picture— the extremes of possibility.

As any science student knows, some of the most memorable classroom experiences happen during labs. It turns out that a plastic pumpkin left behind after Halloween one year inspired a popular experiment. The students measured the distance from the second-floor landing in the center Commons to the bottom floor and then shot Hot Wheels cars off the landing.

“They had to predict [the path of the car] and place the pumpkin where the car would land. The objective was to calculate correctly so that the Hot Wheels cars would fly through the air and go right into the pumpkin. The first year, it was so much fun that the entire student body was watching.

To this day, it’s the favorite lab,” Mr. Bourne says.

Along with his colleagues, Mr. Bourne fondly remembers the antics of former science faculty member Tony DuBourg. “Half the fun of Tony Du Bourg’s demos was figuring out what he was trying to demonstrate,” he says.

Mr. Bourne has also coached football, softball, golf (having started the junior varsity program), and basketball. He is the Form VI Community Service Coordinator and has served as interim Dean of Students, interim coordinator of Community Service, a consultant for Pingry Robotics, and the advisor to the Environmental Protection Club, among other things.

His son Tucker graduated from Pingry in 2008.

Chuck Coe has been chair of Pingry’s science department since 2000.

He came to Pingry from Lehigh University, where he was completing graduate work in chemical engineering and education, and serving as an adjunct instructor for engineering and thermodynamics, among other courses.

Mr. Coe teaches Physics, AP Physics, and Science in the 21st Century. He has coached basketball since 1985, and he coached junior varsity softball from 1987 to 2006 and Middle School Boys’ Soccer from 1990 to 2000.

He also coaches the Pingry Debate Club and was Head of the Academic Judicial Board (now folded into the Honor Board).

Since 2000, Mr. Coe has overseen the renovation of more than half of the classrooms in the science department, making all of them more lab-friendly so that hands-on activities can be integrated into daily instruction.

He also designed the current Pingry AP Physics course, which he has taught for the past 24 years. Mr. Coe has received teaching awards from Stanford and Harvard and has taught four members of the United States Physics Olympics Team.

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One of his favorite activities with students involves magnetism—a project encouraging students to understand

how motors and generators function.

He instructs students to find something operated by a DC motor (such as a remote-control car), remove the motor, and make it work independently as a motor or generator.

“They have to describe how the motor came out, show the parts of the motor, and explain how magnetism enables it to work. They love the idea of getting together, ripping it apart, and figuring it out—the hands-on aspect,” Mr. Coe says.

In 1998, he received The Woodruff J. English Faculty Award, named in honor of Woodruff J. English ’27, P ’68. The award recognizes teachers who instill in their students the love of learning and a commitment to living the ideals of the Honor Code.

Mr. Coe’s son Shannon graduated from Pingry in 1988.

Music faculty member Patty Finn, who teaches at the Short Hills Campus, taught music for Kindergarten through Grade 6 in South Plainfield, N.J. before joining Pingry.

In the past 25 years, she has taught music for Kindergarten through Grade 4 with assistance from the Central Jersey Orff-Schulwerk Association, which offers workshops for teachers throughout the year.

“Although my program is geared toward mastering basic music skills rather than performance, every class presents an overview of their work to their parents at the end of the year.

These ‘music reviews’ enable the parents to see the wide scope of the music program and the far-reaching effects of a comprehensive music education,” Ms. Finn says.

Her other classes include Handbells, Percussion Ensemble, Recorder Ensemble, and Grade 4 flutes.

From 1998 to 2001, Ms. Finn held The E. Murray Todd Faculty Chair, given to a faculty member who has taught at Pingry for at least five years and who has shown extraordinary dedication to the students. During the summer of 2003, thanks to a Pingry fellowship, she studied bagpipes at the College of Piping on Prince Edward Island in Canada.

Outside Pingry, Ms. Finn is also an accomplished composer and artist.

Science faculty member Tim Grant has been teaching Chemistry, Honors Chemistry, AP Chemistry, and Physics during his quarter-century at Pingry. He previously taught Chemistry, Physics, and Algebra at West Nottingham Academy, a boarding school in Maryland.

He also met his wife, Pingry faculty member Vicki Grant, at West Nottingham. They decided they

wanted a new teaching environment further north, closer to their families.

They were impressed with Pingry— Mr. Grant was impressed with the labs—and Pingry offered both of them positions.

Outside the classroom, Mr. Grant is Head Coach of Girls’ Varsity Track (seven state championships), Head Coach of Boys’ Varsity Winter Track (one state championship), and Head Coach of Girls’ Varsity Cross Country (four state championships). He has also coached Middle School Track, Girls’ Junior Varsity Basketball, Girls’ Varsity Basketball, and Middle School Boys’ Basketball.

He has been involved with several clubs, including Women’s Awareness Society and the Environmental Club.

He also was involved in founding and wrote the handbook for the mentor program, which pairs new teachers with experienced teachers.

Mr. Grant remembers the “questions of the week” posed by Tony DuBourg.

“He came up to us and asked bizarre questions out of nowhere, then wanted answers right away,” he recalls.

In 1997, Mr. Grant received The Herbert F. Hahn Junior Faculty Award, dedicated to the memory of this former Master Teacher. The award recognizes teachers who best personify the Pingry philosophy; it is given to encourage young,

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Orff-Schulwerk is composer Carl Orff’s hands-on method of teaching music; this method utilizes percussion, singing, movement, and the recorder to teach skills in an ensemble setting. Ms. Finn has implemented this program with all grade levels. For example, Kindergarten students are introduced to instruments; first-grade students expand their abilities in ensemble settings; second-grade students are introduced to the recorder and learn skills like fingering and breath control; third-grade students make and learn to play the mountain dulcimer; and fourth-grade students add the alto recorder. Ensembles in Grade 4 often include six or more instrumental parts, plus voice.

Patty Finn conducting the Handbells during the 5th anniversary celebration of the Hostetter Arts Center in April 2008

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history department who embodies Mr. Buffum’s dedication to and love of education and history at Pingry.

Her commitment has resulted in several additions to campus life.

She initiated the Awareness Society, the society’s assemblies, and Vital Signs, Pingry’s opinion magazine for students to express their ideas about political, social, and news-oriented topics. In fact, some of her strongest memories link the Awareness Society with former faculty member Albert Booth.

While Mr. Grant was teaching Chemistry and Physics at West Nottingham Academy, English faculty member Vicki Grant was teaching Spanish and English for the academy. When they decided to apply for teaching positions at Pingry, Mrs. Grant recalls that the Pingry faculty members spoke very positively about their experiences.

“There was an independent spirit and the joy of intellectual pursuit. The students were on that journey with us, and that was one of the most exciting elements of this place,” Mrs. Grant says. She remembers students visiting her office to talk about issues, current events, or a book they had read on their own, and she thoroughly enjoyed those casual conversations.

Some of the projects she has assigned to her students over the years include writing letters to Ray Bradbury with questions about his writings and investigating cultural sections of world literature. She also loves to give students lists of books and movies that she recommends.

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History faculty member Madeline Landau is guided by several passions: teaching, history, and ethics and morality. “You have to bring something into that classroom— passion for what you do and who you are, that you are independent and have found your own way.

You need to role model that for the kids,” she says.

Mrs. Landau was the first woman hired to teach history in the Upper School, having majored in history

“After almost any Awareness Society assembly I can remember, Albie would seek me out and tell me, ‘that was a wonderful assembly, and I have to tell you why it was important.’

It was so genuine,” she says.

Tim Grant coaching a Track meet this past spring

at Queens College in New York.

She earned her master’s degree in American History at the University of California at Los Angeles and taught previously at Watchung Hills Regional High School. While she was there, her daughter Hanny ’91 was accepted at Pingry as a sixthgrade student, so Mrs. Landau applied for a history position—and the rest is Pingry history.

Her courses at Pingry have included World History, European History, AP European History, American History, and AP U.S. History—a great deal of her perspective on European history comes from having lived in Amsterdam for eight years. Former Headmaster John Hanly appointed her Chair of the History Department, and she held that position from 1989 to 1998, when she decided to return to what she loved doing most: teaching her students.

She was awarded The David B. Buffum Faculty Chair in History for 2008-2011.

This endowed chair, named for Pingry’s former faculty member, is awarded every three years to an outstanding faculty member in the Pingry

Mrs. Landau also introduced annual assemblies to observe Veterans’ Day, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday, and Holocaust Remembrance Day. She has organized assemblies for International AIDS Day, was the driving force behind Pingry’s display of 12 panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt, started Pingry’s chapter of Amnesty International (people around the world who campaign for human rights), and took students to China during the summer of 1988 while she was pregnant with her second child Elias.

For several years, she was the advisor to Pingry’s former Law Club and enjoyed engaging the students in “intellectual gymnastics.” Competing in Moot Court competitions, her students won the Somerset County competition and competed in regional tournaments.

“I have been involved in engaging students in the world around them, and I have worked assiduously at bringing the outside world into Pingry. I want my students to be engaged with the world, to be sensitive to both people and issues, and to be proactive in making this a better world,” Mrs. Landau says.

Andrew Babbitt ’09 and Colleen Tapen ’09 are Honored with Henry G. Stifel III Award Henry Stifel III ’83 returned to the Martinsville Campus in April 2009 to present the 22nd annual Stifel Award to seniors Andrew Babbitt and Colleen Tapen. Both were recognized for their courage in coping with the loss of a loved one.

Mr. Stifel was paralyzed in an automobile accident during his junior year at Pingry, and part of the award description reads: “It shall be awarded to the person who best exemplifies those characteristics exhibited by Henry G. Stifel III in the aftermath of his accident and spinal injury: courage, endurance, optimism, compassion, and spirit.”

The first Stifel Award was presented to Colleen Tapen by her godfather Rory Corrigan (the father of Katie ’03, Cary ’08, and Peter ’08). He spoke of the endurance, spirit, and compassion Ms. Tapen has demonstrated since her mother, Kate Lucey, passed away in April 2007. Ms. Tapen has been active in student government, was elected as a Peer Leader, and has volunteered for charities, fundraisers, and civic projects. She has also been the driving force behind Together Teens Conquer Cancer, a Pingry club that sponsors fundraisers for cancer research.

create, to believe.” Diagnosed with the same heart condition as his brother, hypercardiomyopathy, Mr. Babbitt has since championed the goals of the JTB Foundation: installing defibrillators in schools/ athletic venues, supporting research on genetic cardiac disorders, and raising awareness of cardiac health among high school and college students.

Mr. Stifel received a deservedly warm welcome from the Pingry community during his return to campus. He is a member of the Pingry Board of Trustees and is Chair of The Pingry Fund. He also serves as Vice Chairman of the Board of The Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation, an organization that had its beginnings in 1982 as the Stifel Paralysis Research Foundation. Mr. Stifel is a Pingry “lifer” who completed all 13 years of school at Pingry before receiving his degree in finance from The College of William & Mary. He now works in Manhattan in the Private Wealth Management Division of Morgan Stanley.

Lower School Raises Money for Reeve Foundation The Short Hills Campus held a special Dress Down Day, sponsored by the McGraw and Zoellner families, on February 6, 2009. The event was held in honor of Henry Stifel III ’83, vice chairman of the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation. Mr. Stifel, his family, and his friends have worked to help find treatments and cures for catastrophic spinal cord injury.

The students raised $561, and their parents and other members of the Pingry community also donated to the event, generating a total gift of $956 for the Reeve Foundation.

In a letter to the school, President and CEO Peter T. Wilderotter wrote: “Your financial support will help to fund the most brilliant minds in neuroscience today, researchers who are poised to deliver solutions that will change the lives of spinal cord injured people throughout the world, as well as Quality of Life programs that enrich and improve the daily lives of those affected by paralysis, and also our Paralysis Resource Center that is a unique information lifeline, especially for the newly injured, including our heroic American war veterans.”

The second Stifel Award was presented to Andrew Babbitt by economics faculty member Leslie Wolfson. She saluted Mr. Babbitt for never giving up, despite the grief he and his family suffered after losing his brother John Taylor Babbitt ’07 to sudden cardiac death in February 2006.

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Ms. Wolfson noted that both Mr. Babbitt and Mr. Stifel have shown her that “someone who is so low, so deep in the abyss, so paralyzed by pain, can move from being this way and slowly move forward, to redefine themselves, to dream, to hope, to

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From left: Andrew Babbitt ’09, faculty member Leslie Wolfson, school counselor Mike Richardson, Trustee Henry Stifel III ’83, Headmaster Nat Conard P ’09, ’11, Colleen Tapen ’09, and Rory Corrigan P ’03, ’08

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No “Doubt” about Pingry Student’s Talent When the movie Doubt opened in theaters on December 12, 2008, it marked the feature film debut of Matthew Marvin ’14. In the movie, which takes place in a Catholic school in 1964, he plays eighthgrade student Raymond Germain, opposite Meryl Streep, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, and Amy Adams.

The film is directed by John Patrick Shanley, who adapted the screenplay from his 2005 Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name.

Mr. Marvin, who just completed his second year at Pingry, has been taking acting and voice lessons for three years at PeachCraft Studios in his hometown of Summit. The studio’s founder and artistic director, Kate Kennedy, is Mr. Marvin’s manager and found his agent, Dina Bogner of Generation TV.

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Doubt was not yet in production when Mr. Marvin received the call to audition, but the lead roles had been cast. He auditioned for two roles with the casting director in New York, where the movie was filmed. His scenes were shot in five locations around Manhattan, the Bronx, and Brooklyn over a total of 15 days in December 2007, January 2008, and February 2008. Many scenes were not included—including the anticipated final scene, with Mr. Marvin, that did not end up being the final scene when the movie was released.

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During the hours of waiting between takes, Mr. Marvin and the other young actors had time to talk with the lead actors. These waiting periods were among the moments when Meryl Streep made the biggest impression on him. “I learned a lot from Meryl Streep. She taught a lot of us, as aspiring actors, about focus and concentration. She was very serious. I don’t remember ever seeing her sit in her director’s chair during

breaks. If I ever do another film, I think I’ll remember her in Doubt and try to be like her,” Mr. Marvin says.

Along with his appearance on the big screen, Mr. Marvin also appeared on television during the Academy Awards telecast. Few clips from movies were shown this year, but there was a clip from Doubt, featuring Mr. Marvin, to promote Mr. Shanley’s nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay.

“We’re very proud of all the work he’s done. He’s a committed and talented actor,” Ms. Bogner says.

Mr. Marvin is not only a movie actor, but also a movie producer. He studied digital filmmaking in the four-week PeachCraft Summer Film Academy in 2008. During the program, he produced his second film, a supernatural thriller titled The Pen, and it was accepted into the “Home Grown” category of the 7th annual Garden State Film Festival that was held April 2-5, 2009, in Asbury Park, N.J. He has also been and continues to be busy in theatre. He performed in Godspell at Pingry this spring, and he

has appeared with New Jersey Ballet and Coro Lirico, for whom he sang the solo in Leonard Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms. In December 2008, he made his operatic debut as Amahl in the Stony Hill Players’ production of Giancarlo Menotti’s Christmas opera Amahl and the Night Visitors. He has participated in Camp Broadway, a summer theatre camp in New York taught by Broadway professionals.

Four times in the recording studio, he has been among a small group of boys who pre-recorded a song for the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade before appearing in the parade.

Mr. Marvin was convinced that he wanted to be on stage or film after seeing his first Broadway show— The Lion King. The musical’s energy grabbed his attention. “It was the way that the creative team and the cast so creatively used movement, words, lyrics, costumes, sets, and even the aisles of the theater and the audience members to enhance everyone’s enjoyment. I had never seen anything like it, and I was simply enthralled,” he says.

Matthew Marvin, right, with Amy Adams and John Patrick Shanley

Faculty Member and Coach Bill Reichle is Inducted into NJSCA Hall of Fame Pingry Boys’ Varsity Swimming Head Coach Bill Reichle P ’00 was inducted into the New Jersey Scholastic Coaches Association’s (NJSCA) Hall of Fame on March 29, 2009. He was one of 38 inductees, out of almost 8,000 head varsity coaches in the state.

He has been coaching swimming for more than 40 years. For the past 22 years, he has coached at Pingry, where he also teaches Algebra. His teams have won six State Group Championships and four County Titles, among other championships, and he was honored by The StarLedger as State “Coach of the Year” in 2008.

Coach Reichle grew up across the street from Olympic Park Pool, and, every summer, his parents obtained a pool membership. He swam every morning with his brother, and he

has always been passionate about swimming. He participates in local meets and in a few ocean races every summer.

In 2008, he participated in both a 4-kilometer swim in Bermuda, placing first in his age group, and the United States Masters National Championship at the University of Texas. In 1999, he swam 22.5 miles around Atlantic City as a member of a three-man relay, and they finished in third place. In 1997, he was invited to swim around Manhattan with 19 international swimmers in the annual 28.5-mile Manhattan Island Marathon Swim; he placed third in his age group and 13th overall.

“It’s an honor to be included in the Hall of Fame. I look forward to coaching at Pingry every year,” he

Bill Reichle with his plaque from the New Jersey Scholastic Coaches Association

said. Coach Reichle is Pingry’s fifth NJSCA Hall of Fame coach, joining soccer coach Miller Bugliari ’52, baseball coach Manny Tramontana, field hockey coach Judy Lee, and lacrosse coach Mike Webster.

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Coach Reichle and faculty member and Girls’ Swimming Coach Judy Lee with the 2009 New Jersey State Non-Public “B” Championship Swimming Team

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Soccer Program Marks 80 Years

Four Head Coaches Since the Beginning: Harvey Reed, Frank Baldwin, Francis West, and Miller Bugliari ’52

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In November 1928, The Pingry Record reported that students eager for competition formed an organized soccer team; the school did not have a regulation soccer field, so the students practiced on the football field. On November 14, the first game took place when Pingry traveled to Staten Island to play Staten Island Academy.

In the fall of 1929, about 25 students reported for the first organized season and, although the season was not successful, Coach Reed praised the players for their spirit, perseverance, and interest.

There were four stumbling blocks that became evident in the early 1930s: the players’ inexperience; several schools that Pingry had been playing dropped their soccer programs; soccer was not popular at Pingry so the student body was not supportive; and other teams were able to practice against someone,

while Pingry did not have competition until game days. In fact, in the team’s first years of existence, it was front-page news when they won, and they sometimes went several seasons without winning a game. However, as the 1930s progressed, more students wanted to play and they gained experience against tougher schools.

A mumps epidemic was detrimental to the 1941 team. The 1942 team won their final game of the season, but there would not be another win until 1947, when The Record

announced a victory over Pennington with a headline that spanned all five columns. The last years of the decade proved to be the most successful to date in the history of Pingry soccer.

Things began to turn around in the 1950s, as the 1953 team was the first to win six games, both the 1953 and 1954 teams won more games than they lost, and the records were admirable by the end of the decade.

The turning point for Pingry varsity soccer was when Miller Bugliari ’52, P ’86, ’90, ’97, who has been associated

The 1962 Team was Pingry’s first undefeated soccer team and the first to win the New Jersey Independent Schools’ Championship Top of page: The 1934 Team is shown with Coach Baldwin (standing, second from left)

with Pingry since 1941, joined Coach West in the fall of 1959 and became head coach in the fall of 1960. The players were undefeated after four games in his first season at the helm, and his second season yielded the best soccer team in 32 years with a 12-1-1 record.

Records start building from there: the first of many undefeated seasons in 1962, 1964, and 1965; the first of many state and county championships in 1962 and 1964; and four consecutive seasons as Union County Champions from 1974 to 1977. There also were several undefeated streaks in the early 1970s, including when the team was undefeated during the regular season on the home field in Hillside. “We were the team to beat on the schedule of every school we played and, yet, we consistently persevered,” says Jonathan Shelby ’74, P ’08, ’11 about the 1972 team.

The 1971 Team dedicated the Hillside varsity field to Coach Bugliari

recalls the post-game tradition of reviewing the number of contacts, goals, and assists…and then practicing. “If we won, we practiced after the game. I remember someone from the other team saying ‘I can’t imagine what would happen if you lost.’ If we lost, we wouldn’t run or practice— Coach Bugliari said that we didn’t earn the right to practice. We weren’t always the most talented, but we were by far the most disciplined,” he says.

By 1983, Coach Bugliari won his 300th career game, and the varsity soccer team continued to accumulate impressive records and rankings, and win state and county titles, throughout the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s.

Throughout his tenure, he has never cut a player from the team.

Sean O’Donnell ’75, P ’05, ’10, one of Pingry’s many accomplished athletes,

Two fields have been named for Coach Bugliari. The 1971 team, as a gift from the seniors to their coach, dedicated the Hillside varsity field to him in recognition of his outstanding achievements in soccer and devotion to his players. “It was especially important to us that whenever the school might move, or wherever the school might move to, the varsity soccer field would always be named

Then, in 1994, The Miller Bugliari ’52 World Cup Soccer Field was constructed at the Martinsville Campus as a practice field for the Italian National Team.

Also on the soccer “timeline”: in 1980, Coach Bugliari served as President of the National Soccer Coaches Association of America; he was inducted into Pingry’s Athletic Hall of Fame in 1991, the year of its inception; and, on September 27, 2008, Coach Bugliari won his 700th career game. To most of those in the Pingry community, and in the soccer community throughout the world, he is known as “The Coach.”

Several assistants have worked with him over the years, including Coaches Romano, Walters, Phillips, Hutchison, Jenkins, O’Donnell, Tramontana, Macrae ’82, Rohdie, Ranzato, Fahey ’99, Donnelly ’92, Schmidt ’98, Tripicchio ’02, DeGrande ’94, and Kimber ’76. Nine boys’ varsity soccer teams have been inducted into Pingry’s Athletic Hall of Fame, demonstrating the combined teamwork of hundreds of players and coaches: 1962, 1964, 1965, 1968, 1970, 1972, 1974, 1988, and 1996.

With the conclusion of the 2008 team’s undefeated season, Coach Bugliari’s career record is 714 wins, 89 losses, and 55 ties.

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At the time of his 300th career win, Coach Bugliari’s record was 300-39-30

for and dedicated to Miller Bugliari,” says Paul Ciszak ’72, captain of the 1971 team.

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Miller Bugliari ’52 is Honored for 50 Years of Excellence On April 4, 2009, the Pingry community honored Coach Bugliari for his half-century of service to the school. He joined the faculty in 1959 and became head coach of the Boys’ Varsity Soccer Team in 1960. For many years, he taught biology and chaired the science department, and he is internationally recognized for his soccer expertise.

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Nearly 500 people paid tribute to Coach Bugliari on April 4 for his inspiration to the Pingry community. The gathering included multiple generations of soccer players, parents of soccer players, Coach Bugliari’s classmates, alumni who graduated earlier than 1952, current and former faculty members, and current and former members of the board.

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With Headmaster Nat Conard acting as Master of Ceremonies, speakers included Chair of the Board Jack Brescher ’65, Honorary Trustee Warren S. Kimber, Jr. ’52, former Pingry faculty member and coach Adam Rohdie, Charlie Stillitano, Jr. ’77, P ’14, ’17, Boyce Bugliari ’86, and the 2008 Boys’ Varsity Soccer Team.

The evening also featured a video produced by Peter Hiscano ’75 and the unveiling of a commemorative painting.

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Virginia Pierson, her husband Bob Pierson ’53, Coach Bugliari, Chuck Wynn, Jr. ’55, and Collette Wynn

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[ School News ] Girls’ Soccer:

A Winning Experiment One of the biggest turning points for Pingry athletics happened during the 1974-75 academic year when Pingry became a co-ed school. This milestone, combined with the landmark Title IX legislation of the Education Amendments of 1972 that increased female participation in athletics nationwide, became the foundation for a Pingry sports program that now offers female students the chance to play any of 16 different sports.

The early days for girls’ soccer at Pingry were quite rocky. As a fall sport, field hockey naturally became the first girls team to compete at Pingry. However, there were not enough girl athletes at Pingry in those middle years of the 1970s to fill both a field hockey team and a soccer team. Soccer joined the athletics program in 1976 with a team started by current school counselor Mike Richardson. According to the October 12, 1976, issue of The Pingry Record, the season began with a twoday soccer clinic, and the team was considered to be in the “experimental stage.” It was so experimental, in fact, that no games were scheduled—only four interscholastic scrimmages.

At that time, girls’ soccer was still in its infancy as a sport in the United States. Soccer was such a relatively

The 1976 Team was Pingry’s first girls’ soccer team

new sport that girls were even considered too fragile to play by the same rules as boys’ teams, so special rules covering all elements of the game— such as allowing more liberal use of hands for protection and passing— were put in place. “Many of us had never played on a soccer team before—not like girls today who start playing soccer before Kindergarten.

Coach Richardson was brave to assume the responsibility of leading a group of eager, yet fairly inexperienced, teenage girls,” says Lori Halivopoulos ’78, a member of the first girls’ team. For at least the first 10 seasons, Coach Richardson and his assistants were actually teaching girls on the team how to play soccer.

It took a while for the girls’ team to reap the benefits of grass-roots soccer programs, but, by the 1980s, that change arrived. Girls’ teams began

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playing by the same rules as boys’ teams, and Pingry soccer teams were now increasingly full of girls who had been playing in the Lower School and on club teams. As a result, the skill level of both the school’s athletes and the Pingry girls’ soccer program soared. “There’s no comparison between girl soccer players today and those from 30 years ago,” Dr. Richardson says. Today’s girl soccer players are highly-trained athletes with skills and experience that could not have been imagined when the program first started as an experiment back in the 1970s.

For example, Pingry girls’ soccer teams have since won both state prep and county championships, such as the 1988 team that finished with a 17-3-1 record—that team was inducted into the Athletic Hall of Fame during Reunion Weekend in May 2009. Pingry girls’ soccer players have also claimed numerous honors at all levels, including one alumna who won the 2008 NCAA Division I National Championship as part of the powerhouse Tar Heels soccer program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Looking back, Ms. Halivopoulos knows the first girls’ team broke new ground.

“We all wanted to carry on the Pingry tradition of excellence in soccer as established by our male counterparts, and we worked hard to make it happen. We really were pioneers who created a legacy which lives on in a big way today,” she says.

Athletic Roundup Fall 2008 Season Results Boys’ Cross Country: 10-0

Colonial Hills Conference: Champions Newark Academy Invitational: 2nd place team; Dan Schuchinsky (2nd), Matt LaForgia (3rd) Colonial Hills Conference Meet: Champions; Dan Schuchinsky (2nd), Matt LaForgia (3rd) Somerset County Championship: 5th place team; Dan Schuchinsky (4th), Matt LaForgia (5th) Shore Coaches Invitational, F Division: 2nd place team Prep A State Championship: 3rd place team; Matt LaForgia (1st), Dan Schuchinsky (2nd) New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA) Non Public B Group Championship: 2nd place

NJSIAA Meet of Champions: 17th place team; Matt LaForgia (21st) All State, Non-Public B: Matt LaForgia, Dan Schuchinsky All State, All Conference, All County, Prep A: Matt LaForgia, Dan Schuchinsky Star-Ledger All State/All Non-Public: Matt LaForgia (2nd team), Dan Schuchinsky (3rd team) Star-Ledger All Somerset 1st team: Matt LaForgia, Dan Schuchinsky Final Non-Public Group Ranking: 7th place Courier-News All-Area: Matt LaForgia (1st team), Dan Schuchinsky (2nd team), Adam Armstrong (Honorable Mention)

GIRLs’ Cross Country: 10-0

Colonial Hills Conference: Champions Newark Academy Invitational: 2nd place team; Olivia Tarantino (1st), Kate Leib (4th), Louisa Lee (5th) Somerset County Championship: 4th place team; Olivia Tarantino (12th), Kate Leib (16th), Louisa Lee (25th) Colonial Hills Conference Meet: Champions; Olivia Tarantino (1st), Kate Leib (3rd), Louisa Lee (4th), Mary Kate Martinson (7th), Alex Scavone (10th) Shore Coaches Invitational, F Division: 2nd place team; Olivia Tarantino (2nd) NJSIAA Non-Public B Tournament: Champions; Olivia Tarantino (2nd), Kate Leib (3rd), Mary Kate Martinson (8th), Louisa Lee (9th) Prep A Meet Championship: 13th place

All Conference: Louisa Lee, Kate Leib, Mary Kate Martinson, Olivia Tarantino All Prep: Louisa Lee, Kate Leib, Mary Kate Martinson, Olivia Tarantino All Non Public B: Louisa Lee, Kate Leib, Olivia Tarantino Star-Ledger All Somerset: Kate Leib, Olivia Tarantino (2nd team) Star-Ledger All State (All Non-Public): Olivia Tarantino (2nd team), Kate Leib (3rd team) Star-Ledger Final Group/Non-Public Team Leaders: 5th place Star-Ledger Top 20: 17th place team Courier News All Area: Olivia Tarantino (2nd team), Kate Leib (3rd team), Mary Kate Martinson, Louisa Lee (Honorable Mentions)

Field Hockey: 15-5-1

Colonial Hills Conference: Champions NJSIAA Tournament: Advanced to the Sectional Semifinals Colonial Hills Conference All Conference Honors: Conference standing: 14-0-0; Georgia Cook, Danielle Cosentino, Hillary Densen (1st team); Jennifer Lang, Katie Parsels, Charlotte Small (2nd team), Cameron Lan (Honorable Mention) Star-Ledger Final Area Standing in Somerset County: 3rd place

Star-Ledger/Group I: 10th place Star-Ledger All State /All Group I: Charlotte Small (2nd team) Courier News All Area: Charlotte Small (2nd team), Hillary Densen (3rd team), Danielle Consentino, Georgia Cook, Katie Parsels (Honorable Mentions) Courier News Final Area Ranking: 4th place

Football: 2-8

Courier News All Area: Grant Thomas, Andrew Weinstock, Dylan Westerhold (Honorable Mentions) Star-Ledger All Somerset: Dylan Westerhold (3rd team)

Boys’ Soccer: 19-0-1

Colonial Hills Conference Champions/Hills Division Somerset County Interscholastic Athletic Association (SCIAA): Champions NJSIAA Non-Public A: Champions All Somerset County: Brendan Burgdorf, Matt Fechter, Grant Palmer, Will Stamatis (1st team), Scott Keogh, Matt Rybak (2nd team) Colonial Hills Conference/Hills Division All Conference Player of the Year: Brendan Burgdorf

Colonial Hills Conference/Hills Division All Conference Coach of the Year: Miller Bugliari ’52 Colonial Hills Conference/Hills Division All Conference: Matt Fechter, Matt Rybak, Will Stamatis (1st team), Scott Keogh, David Louria, Grant Palmer (2nd team) New Jersey Soccer Coaches Association 2008 All State Team: Brendan Burgdorf, Matt Fechter, Scott Keogh, Grant Palmer, Matt Rybak, Will Stamatis ESPN RISE National Boys Athlete of the Week: Will Stamatis Boys’ Soccer results continue on page 36

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Colonial Hills Conference/All Conference: Grant Thomas (1st team offense/Colonial division), Chris Christensen (2nd team offense/Colonial division), James Tilson (1st team defense/ Colonial division), Dan Muller, Andrew Weinstock (2nd team defense/Colonial division), Carlton Bowers, Dylan Westerhold (Honorable Mentions)

Boys’ Soccer: 19-0-1 — continued

East Region Athlete of the Week: Will Stamatis Star-Ledger Somerset County Coach of the Year: Miller Bugliari ’52 Star-Ledger Player of the Year: Brendan Burgdorf Star-Ledger Somerset County: Team of the Year Star-Ledger All-Star/All State: Brendan Burgdorf, Will Stamatis (1st team) Star-Ledger All-Star/All Non-Public: Brendan Burgdorf, Will Stamatis (1st team), Matt Fechter, Scott Keogh (2nd team), Grant Palmer (3rd team)

Star-Ledger All-Star/All Somerset: Brendan Burgdorf, Matt Fechter, Scott Keogh, Will Stamatis (1st team), Grant Palmer, Matt Rybak (2nd team), Conor Starr (3rd team) Star-Ledger: Ranked No. 1 in New Jersey Final Area Rankings: 1st in Somerset County Courier News: Team ranked No. 1 Courier News Boy Soccer Player of the Year: Brendan Burgdorf Courier News All-Area: Brendan Burgdorf, Scott Keogh (1st team), Matt Fechter, Grant Palmer, Will Stamatis (2nd team), Andrew LaFontaine, Tyler Smith, Conor Starr (Honorable Mentions)

Girls’ Soccer: 18-2

Colonial Hills Conference Champions/Colonial Division SCIAA Championship: Finalist NJSIAA Tournament: Advanced to the 3rd round Colonial Hills Conference Honors/Colonial Division: Caroline Albanese, Amanda Flugstad-Clarke, Rebecca Krakora, Alyssa Zupon (1st team), Emily Damstrom, Emily Strackhouse (2nd team), Kristy Bendetti, Erin Murphy (Honorable Mentions) Star-Ledger All Star/All State: Caroline Albanese (1st team), Alyssa Zupon (3rd team) All Non-Public Honors: Caroline Albanese, Alyssa Zupon (1st team), Rebecca Krakora (2nd team)

All Somerset Honors: Caroline Albanese, Rebecca Krakora, Alyssa Zupon (1st team), Corey DeLaney, Emily Strackhouse (3rd team) Caroline Albanese is the high scorer (30 goals) in Somerset County Final Area Rankings: 2nd place in Somerset County Courier News All-Area: Ranked 3rd in Final Top 10; Caroline Albanese, Alyssa Zupon (1st team), Rebecca Krakora (2nd team); Corey DeLaney, Amanda Flugstad-Clarke, Emily Strackhouse (Honorable Mentions) Caroline Albanese was the All-Area scoring leader with 29 goals and 13 assists

Girls’ Tennis: 20-3

Colonial Hills Conference: Champions SCIAA: 4th place team SCIAA Champions at 2nd Doubles: Natalie Battista, Morgan McCollum NJSIAA: Sectional finalist Star-Ledger All Somerset: Natalie Battista, Morgan McCollum (2nd team/doubles) Final Non-Public ranking: 4th place

Star-Ledger Final Top 20: 15th Final Team Area Leaders: Somerset County: Ranked 3rd Courier News All Area: Lindsey Bissinger, Emily Combias (2nd team/doubles), Meghan Finlayson, Chelsea Garber (Honorable Mentions) First Team by Flight: Natalie Battista, Morgan McCollum (2nd doubles)

Water Polo – Boys’: 1-6 – Girls’: 1-4 – Co-ed: 7-5

Eastern Water Polo “B” Tournament: 2nd place All-Tournament Team Selections: Charles Fraites, Nick Gilligan, Doug Ober

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Boys’ Basketball: 6-18

girls’ Basketball: 12-12

Colonial Hills Conference/Hills Division: Scott Sowinski, Cory Babcock (Honorable Mentions)

Colonial Hills Conference/Hills Division: Katie Parsels (2nd team), Stephanie Hanchuk, Emily Damstrom (Honorable Mentions)

Boys’ Fencing: 3-7

girls’ Fencing: 1-10

Boys’ Ice Hockey: 14-9-2

Girls’ Ice Hockey: 0-14

Morris County Secondary School Ice Hockey League (MCSSIHL) Mennen Division All League: Conor Starr, Peter Martin (1st team, All League), Sam Ladyzinski (2nd team, All League), Pierce Fowler (Honorable Mention, All League)

Women’s Ice Hockey League of the Mid-Atlantic (WIHLMA): Emma Carver (Honorable Mention, All League)

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New Jersey Ski Racing Association (NJSRA) Prep League: 3rd place

NJSRA Prep League: 3rd place

NJSRA State Championship: 2nd place (1st in Slalom)

NJSRA All Prep League Recognition: Danielle Lashley, Liz Roberts, Jackie Reef

NJSRA All Prep League Recognition: Sam Grabel, Matt Ford, Alex Lieberman, Sam Mackoff, Matt Damstrom Boys’ Squash: 8-3

Girls’ Squash: 6-5

U.S. National Tournament: boys 15th

U.S. National Tournament: girls 31st

New Jersey High School Squash Championship: David Kerr (semi-finalist)

New Jersey High School Squash Championship: Chloe Blacker (female champion)

Boys’ Swimming: 11-0-1

Colonial Hills Conference: Champions Somerset County Championship: 3rd place New Jersey Independent School Athletic Association (NJISAA) Tournament: 2nd place (A Division) NJSIAA: 1st place (Non-Public B) Big Blue Invitational: 1st place Colonial Hills Conference Individual Champions: Brandon Moy (100 Free, 1st place), Nic Fink (100 Breaststroke, 1st place; 200 Individual Medley, 1st place), Nic Fink, Brandon Moy, Calvin Jones, James Ross (200 Free, 1st place), Alex Mango, Brandon Moy, Nic Fink, James Ross (400 Free, 1st place)

Somerset County Individual Champions: Nic Fink (100 Breaststroke, 1st place), Nic Fink, James Ross, Calvin Jones, Brandon Moy (200 Free, 1st place), Alex Mango, Brandon Moy, James Ross, Nic Fink (400 Free, 1st place) NJISAA Individual Champions: Nic Fink (200 Individual Medley, 1st place; 100 Breaststroke, 1st place), Nic Fink, James Ross, Calvin Jones, Brandon Moy (200 Free, 1st place; 400 Free, 1st place) NJSIAA Meet of Champions: Nic Fink, James Ross, Calvin Jones, Brandon Moy (200 Free, 1st place, meet record) School Records: Nic Fink, James Ross, Calvin Jones, Brandon Moy (200 Free; 400 Free), Nic Fink (100 Breaststroke)

Girls’ Swimming: 5-6

Colonial Hills Conference: Champions

Briehan Burke, Alysia Tsui, Regan Fink (400 Free, meet record)

Somerset County Championship: 4th place

Colonial Hills Conference Individual Champions: Briehan Burke (50 Free), Regan Fink (100 Free), Christina Daquila (500 Free), Alysia Tsui (100 Fly), Regan Fink (200 Individual Medley), Briehan Burke, Christina Daquila, Alysia Tsui, Regan Fink (400 Free)

NJISAA: 2nd place NJSIAA: sectional finalist Big Blue Invitational: 1st place Big Blue Individual Champions: Alysia Tsui, Regan Fink, Becky Krakora, Kathryn Kolb (200 Medley, meet record), Alysia Tsui (100 Fly), Regan Fink (100 Free, meet record), Christina Daquila (400 Free, meet record), Maja Feenick, Becky Krakora, Christina Daquila, Regan Fink (200 Free, meet record), Alysia Tsui (100 Back), Briehan Burke (100 Breaststroke), Christina Daquila,

NJISAA Individual Champion: Christina Daquila (500 Free) NJSIAA Individual Champions: Christina Daquila (200 Free, 14th; 500 Free, 7th), Maja Feenick, Christina Daquila, Briehan Burke, Regan Fink (11th)

Boys’ Winter Track

Colonial Hills Conference: 2nd place Somerset County Championship: 3rd place NJSIAA Non-Public B: Champions

NJSIAA Non-Public B Individual Champions: Carlton Bowers (400-Meter Dash, 1st place), Dan Schuchinsky (1,600-Meter Run, 1st place; 800-Meter Run, 1st place), Dan Schuchinsky, Matt LaForgia, Matt Rybak, Carlton Bowers (4x400 Meter Relay, 1st place)

Girls’ Winter Track

Colonial Hills Conference: 8th place Somerset County Championship: 10th place NJSIAA: 13th place

Colonial Hills Conference Individual Champions: Louisa Lee (1,600-Meter Run, 1st place), Olivia Tarantino (3,200-Meter Run, 1st place, meet record)

Wrestling: 3-16

All-Colonial Hills: Jack Muller (Honorable Mention)

Somerset County Championship: 13th place

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Colonial Hills Conference Individual Champions: Matt LaForgia (800-Meter Run, 1st place), Dan Schuchinsky (3,200-Meter Run, 1st place), Carlton Bowers (55-Meter Hurdles, 1st place), Dan Schuchinsky, Matt LaForgia, Andrew Sartorius, Carlton Bowers (1,600-Meter Relay, 1st place)

Somerset County Individual Champion: Carlton Bowers (55-Meter Hurdles, 1st place, tie for meet record)

Scene Around Campus Middle School Classics Day The Middle School held its first “Classics Day” on March 13, 2009, for students in Forms I and II, all of whom study Latin. The day’s activities were coordinated

by Latin faculty member Margaret Kelleher ’01. Each student attended workshops that focused on how the Classical world impacts various modern disciplines, including art, English, history, and science.

For example, Ms. Kelleher played “Name that Roman Emperor,” a game in which students identified emperors by certain clues. In “Capital Ideas,” art faculty member Jane Edwards helped students build Corinthian and Ionic columns. In “Create the Pingry Superhero,” English faculty member Isabel Roach P ’08, ’09, ’11 discussed how a modern epic hero would act. In Battlefield: Spain,” Spanish faculty member Laura Mila played a game which taught the students about the different ancient people who have controlled and influenced Spain.

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“Drawn to Mythology”: Adam Palmer ’13, Rob Cerepak ’13, and Max Gottlieb ’13 illustrate a Greek myth on the image of a ceramic vase (an amphora). The completed amphorae are shown on the next page.

“Middle School students sometimes wonder why we make them take Latin since both the language and the Roman culture are ‘dead,’” Ms. Kelleher says. “The courses they take have some history in the Classical world. I wanted to show the kids Margaret Kelleher ’01 that, even though a culture is dead, it can still affect and have great influence on our modern world. I also wanted to create a fun and engaging way to stress the interdisciplinary nature of the Classics.”

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To help pay for the costs of “Classics Day,” Latin faculty member Susan Forrester P ’96, ’99 had applied for and received a grant from The Classical Association of the Atlantic States (CAAS). The Association’s mission is to strengthen the teaching of, and research and foster public support for, the languages, civilizations, and cultures of ancient Greece and Rome.

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From left: Kendall Smith ’14, Avery Hatfield ’14, Isabella Barrionuevo ’14, Koryna O’Besso ’14, Kiki Fitzgerald ’14, and Stewart Wood ’14.

The completed mosaics are shown above.

5 Four groups of students created the four sections of each of these mosaics

6 From left: Ben Haltmaier ’14, Billy Porges ’14, Danni Temares ’14, Nikki Witte ’14, Carly Rotatori ’14, and Leah Greer ’14, with faculty member Susan Forrester

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Banka, who live in Prague, visited Pingry in December 2008 for master classes and demonstrations. They both emphasized that students should feel the courage and excitement to experiment with their art. “My major message is to go against the mainstream. It’s the only way to be recognized,” Mr. Banka says. Ms. Vikova urged the students not to approach art as just a way to make money. “Create for a message. The major meaning of art is trying to affect human nature,” she says.

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Series on Ethics and Morality, named for Pingry’s former headmaster, took place on February 6, 2009. Dr. D. James Baker, Ph.D., director of the Global Carbon Measurement Program of the William J. Clinton Foundation, discussed global warming, climate change, and other environmental issues.

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Lower School students participated in the annual tradition of decorating the Mitten Tree in December 2008. For over 20 years, students have donated mittens, scarves, and hats to several charities.

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The Winter Musical in February 2009 was Les Misérables. From left: Diane Giangreco ’09, Caroline Moore, Catherine Lipper ’09, Connor Jennings ’09, Brian Hart ’09, Brian Fischer ’11, Ben Hamm Conard ’11, and Taha Rakla ’09

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The dancers introduced the students to the excitement of flamenco—a combination of fast-paced dancing, singing, and guitar-playing.

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The annual “Grandparents’ and Special Friends’ Day” took place at the Short Hills Campus on May 7, 2009, with about 400 guests.

Here, a student and her grandparents enjoyed the science

class’ “Tape My Bones Lab,” using masking tape to identify about 20 bones.

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Vinita Davey ’13, and Lakshmi Davey ’11 performed Indian dances for the Middle School on March 6, 2009, during Foreign Language Week.

The dances are called Kathak, Garba, and Bharathanatyam.

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Middle School boys’ and girls’ choruses, and the Conference Period Handbells, presented a Middle School Choral Festival on March 12, 2009. They performed music by Mozart, Handel, Beethoven, and Ellington, and selections from The Lion King and Guys and Dolls, among other pieces.

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A Message from the PAA President Thank you to all of the alumni who returned to Pingry in May and helped make Reunion Weekend such a success. As you will see in this issue’s photo gallery, many people had the opportunity to re-connect with their classmates. This reconnection is among the most enduring and fun aspects of the weekend’s activities. Many alumni also enjoyed seeing the progress that Pingry has made since they graduated. For some, this weekend was their first visit to the Martinsville campus. For others, this was the first opportunity to see the Hostetter Arts Center or the Carol and Park B. Smith ’50 Middle School. All of these impressive facilities conveyed the feeling of a vibrant and vital school community of which the alumni could be proud.

It was my particular pleasure to award the 2009 Nelson L. Carr Service Award, named in honor of Nelson L. Carr ’24. It is presented annually to an alumnus or alumna who has demonstrated faithful and dedicated service in support of Pingry. Nelson devoted almost 70 years of service to the school.

This year’s recipient is Bruce Morrison ’64, who has contributed immeasurably to Pingry’s campus life and publications, including this magazine, by taking thousands of action photographs of our athletes.

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During Reunion, we also celebrated the silver anniversary of the Martinsville Campus by welcoming back the Class of 1984, who were seniors when the move took place, and presenting a video about the move.

We were also fortunate to have Dave Wilson ’59, who was Pingry’s Headmaster during the transition to Martinsville, along with Bill Beinecke ’31, P ’61, ’64 and Mac Bristol ’39, P ’69 join us in celebrating this milestone.

Photographer Bruce Morrison ’64 Honored for His Service to Pingry

PAA President Steve Lipper ’79 presents Bruce Morrison ’64 with The Nelson L. Carr Service Award

Following tradition during Reunion Weekend, the Pingry Alumni Association surprised Bruce Morrison ’64 with the 2009 Nelson L. Carr Service Award, a tribute to the thousands of hours he has spent on various activities that benefit the school.

His most visible contribution has been to snap countless photographs of Pingry’s athletes. He has spoken at Career Day twice within the past five years, volunteered for The Pingry Fund and Reunion, and served as a Class Agent. Mr. Morrison has also participated in two alumni art shows.

For the first, he was one of 25 alumni who displayed artwork when the Hostetter Arts Center opened. For the second, in May 2004, he teamed with Dwight Hiscano ’80 for an exhibit of nature photographs.

In fact, the Pingry community may know Mr. Morrison as a sports photographer, but it was nature that inspired his love of photography, and it is nature that he continues to photograph when he is not taking pictures of the school’s athletic events.

Mr. Morrison was also an active participant in Pingry athletics during his student days—he played football and baseball and served as captain of the baseball team his senior year. He was also Circulation Manager of The Pingry Record and a member of the Spanish Club, Biology Club, and Literary Society. He earned his bachelor’s degree at Monmouth College in Illinois in 1970.

There have actually been two facets of his career. During the 1970s and 1980s, he was a bond broker for KMS Securities in New York. Then he moved to Montana and worked as a nature photographer, an interest that had developed from bird watching. In 1993, he earned his master’s degree in Environmental Science from the University of Montana. He is the owner and sole proprietor of Moose Country Images.

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Since then, Mr. Morrison’s nature photographs have been published

by National Geographic, The Wilderness Society, the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, the Greater Yellowstone Coalition, and the New Jersey Audubon Society. For the past eight years, since moving back to New Jersey, he has been taking pictures of Pingry’s sports teams. Today, he continues to balance his sports and nature photography.

Steve Lipper ’79, P ’09, ’12, ’14

“[Pingry is] a great community, and it is fun being part of the community. One of the things I really enjoy about it now is getting to meet the kids. Pingry enriched my life and, sometimes, you don’t realize what you’ve had until you’ve been away from it for a while,” Mr. Morrison says.

I hope you enjoy the photos from Reunion Weekend. I look forward to seeing you at the PAA’s upcoming events, including Homecoming on September 26.

High School Students are in Business

Seth Flowerman ’04, sitting third from right, with interns in New York in the summer of 2004

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Because of an internship coordinated by a Pingry parent during high school, Seth Flowerman ’04 discovered that an internship is a powerful part of providing perspective on college and career decisions. That discovery led him on a path that has resulted in his recognition by the Global Students Entrepreneur Awards as one of the top student entrepreneurs in the world.

[ alumni News ] Seth Flowerman ’04 is doing his part to ensure that any high school student who wants to familiarize himself or herself with a possible career can do so, without waiting until college. In fact, he feels that students should explore a career while in high school.

“There is no single more valuable experience that high school students can have—in terms of helping clarify their career interests, college decisions, and future direction—than an internship,” he says. That conviction resulted from his four-week summer internship in London in 2002, when he was 16.

Mike Williams, father of his classmate Ben ’04, had been managing director at the financial services firm Cantor Fitzgerald and helped Mr. Flowerman arrange an interview for an internship with the company. The internship changed the direction of Mr. Flowerman’s life. “I realized that my personality was not a good fit for finance, and that realization was so valuable because I had been planning to study finance in college,” he says.

Equally as important to him, the internship meant being treated like an adult, having some autonomy, and learning about himself. He knew that he wanted to provide current and future high school students with the same experiences and revelations.

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After the internship, Mr. Flowerman created a business plan for Career Explorations (CE), a company that would offer residential internships for high school students. Thanks to Pingry economics faculty member Leslie Wolfson, he was presented with a unique opportunity to test CE’s potential. Ms. Wolfson’s students had the chance to participate in Saint Michael’s College’s “Young Entrepreneur Challenge,” an annual competition that challenges high school students to develop and market sustainable business plans that have social purposes.

Mr. Flowerman refined his business plan for CE with Ms. Wolfson, other Pingry faculty, and other entrepreneurs. “I thought [Seth’s business plan] had great value and potential. It was wonderful to work with him to get this business plan complete and off the ground,” Ms. Wolfson says.

There were several hundred applicants from across the United States, and Mr. Flowerman won the compeLeah Dungo ’09, left, with her mentor Jheramis Hernandez tition; he was presented with the award by the the summer of 2007. “CE Internships Governor of Vermont. seemed like the perfect opportunity “What was interesting about that … to achieve both,” she says. Her was having the validation that a internship in New York with the panel of experts has reviewed all architectural firm of Holzman Moss of these different business plans Architecture proved to be memorable and thinks this idea is feasible,” Mr. and rewarding. She built many of the Flowerman says. He knew that he model buildings that were shown to had to find a way to start his business, clients, among other responsibilities. and he incorporated CE (www.ceinternships.com) in July 2003.

“I couldn’t have asked for better exposure to a real-world job. I became The company provides structured, much more independent that sumcustomized summer internship promer, and I feel more prepared for grams in fields that the students college, in terms of being on my choose. The internships, which take own and taking care of myself. I am place in New York City and Boston no longer afraid to take on more (additional cities will be offered in responsibilities in all aspects of my 2010), are offered for experience (not life,” Ms. Dungo says. credit) and are intended to bridge the gap between high school and college.

CE does not have a set number of internships. Instead, they customize the experience based on each student’s goals and ask their existing network of mentors if they know someone in a certain field. “It’s about finding the right person who believes in the power of an internship and believes in the power of mentoring a young high school student. No matter what the area is, we try to tailor the experience to meet what the student is looking for,” Mr. Flowerman says.

Leah Dungo ’09, at age 16, was interested in architecture and was looking for something productive to do during

Five full-time CE employees identify internship opportunities and place students, supplemented by 20-25 summer staff members—and Mr. Flowerman’s mother, Margot Jackler P ’04, ’08, helps with the summer planning. The summer staff must be college graduates. “Our preference is to take repeat staff members because you know who you’re getting, and they’re familiar with the program’s responsibilities. This is not an easy summer job,” Mr. Flowerman says.

These employees are involved with activity planning, logistics, speaking to parents, and working with the internship providers to ensure the quality of the experience for program participants.

New York housing is provided at The Juilliard School, and Boston housing is provided at Emerson College. CE also offers a 7-to-1 student-to-staff ratio, a meal plan, a safe environment, social activities with diverse students from around the world, career-based seminars and workshops, and college visits. “There is a lot that goes into making the program happen besides the execution of the summer portion. It is a premium program, and we provide a premium service,” Mr. Flowerman says.

Also because of his work with CE, and feedback from the students who enjoyed participating in the program, Mr. Flowerman started his second business, Vertex Academic Services (www.vertexacademic.com), in 2006.

The program, whose name refers to helping students achieve their potential, provides standardized test preparation, academic tutoring, and admissions consulting services.

Mr. Flowerman currently employs 17 academic advisors from diverse backgrounds.

There were 20 students the first year.

Since then, 400 students from 12 countries and nearly 40 states have participated in CE.

“We hire only the best people, and we’re extremely stringent with the people we hire. We have an extensive process to become a tutor—mock tutoring sessions, multiple rounds of interviews, and background checks— because a lot of these tutors may be going to students’ homes. We need to make sure that these are legitimate educators with significant experience in tutoring,” Mr. Flowerman says.

Because of his work with CE, Mr. Flowerman has now been honored several times. In 2004, he received the International Student Entrepreneur of the Year Award presented by Junior Achievement, a global, non-profit organization.

Then, in 2008, he was named by BusinessWeek as one of the Top 25 Entrepreneurs Under 25 and placed third in the Global Students Entrepreneur Awards (GSEA), open to students who operate successful businesses while in college. The GSEA is run by the Entrepreneurs Organization (EO), whose 7,000 members are entrepreneurs from around the world. He also received the GSEA Social Impact Award, which recognizes the student entrepreneur who shows the most regard for the community and environment in which he or she does business.

Mr. Flowerman earned his B.S. from Cornell University in 2008 in applied economics and management a nd received his M.B.A. at the S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University in May 2009. Mr. Flowerman is now working to grow both businesses into world-class companies that help his clients make more informed decisions about their futures. He has recently hired five additional full-time employees to expand CE. For more information about internship and employment opportunities, contact Mr. Flowerman at 800-231GOCE (4623) or seth@ceinternships. com. CE is always looking for great companies and individuals interested in hosting an unpaid summer intern or students who might be interested in attending the CE program. Several Pingry students are participating in 2009, including Adam Li ’11 and Ethan Kenny ’11. Mr. Flowerman encourages Pingry alumni, families, and friends to contact him to learn more.

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Mr. Flowerman was one of nearly 1,000 nominees for the GSEA from around the world. The pool was narrowed to 26 semi-finalists through several rounds of regional competitions. The semi-finalists were flown to Chicago for a two-day event, where each of them presented for 25 minutes to a panel of successful entrepreneurs. At that point, the seven finalists were selected and presented again, this time for 30 minutes, to the final judges.

Reflecting on CE and Vertex Academic Services, Mr. Flowerman says he strives to become a growth entrepreneur—someone who creates jobs and stimulates the economy— rather than a lifestyle entrepreneur.

“I hope to position myself as a growth entrepreneur, as someone who uses an idea to create jobs. Entrepreneurship is the underpinning of the economy,”

he says. It has been challenging for him to launch and run two businesses while still in school, but his mother and brother have helped him considerably; his brother was CE’s program director in New York for five years before moving on to law school.

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Keynote Speaker Mark Schwartz ’75, Chief Executive Officer of Gordon Brothers Merchant Partners, returned to Pingry for the first time since 1975 for the occasion. Mr. Schwartz is one of the managers of Gordon Brothers Group, LLC, and served as the company’s CEO from September 2004 to September 2008 and as President from 2002 to 2008.

During his career, Mr. Schwartz has also served as Chairman and CEO of Nine West Group, Inc. and founded his own buyout group. For eight years, he was a member of the Investment Banking Division of Merrill Lynch. He describes his career in three parts: investment banking (advising companies), merchant banking (buying and financing companies), and managing companies.

“I always knew that I wanted to go into business. The type of business was less important to me than interacting with interesting people, solving problems, traveling, making some money along the way, and being in a position to give back to the community,” he told the seniors.

Amanda Freeman ’94 has participated in Career Day since 2004, and this year she spoke as an entrepreneur. In 2007, she launched her own business, “Vital Juice” (www. vitaljuice.com), a daily email and

“We started it because we realized we were less interested in restaurant openings and sample sales and more interested in healthy eating and living well as we were hitting our 30s.

We found that there was nothing on the web in a quick, inspiring format,” Ms. Freeman says.

During her Career Day sessions, she emphasized that an entrepreneur needs to be a passionate risk-taker who is willing to put his or her own money into a business and sacrifice a salary in order to reach a goal.

“Being an entrepreneur is not for people who like routine,” she says.

Reflecting on Career Day, Ms. Freeman enjoys being a presenter.

“It’s nice to be exposed to the young generation. Getting questions from the students is the best part of the day, because you understand what interests them. I enjoy giving back to the community and talking about my experience in a way that will help others,” she says.

Nate Zinsser, Ph.D. ’73, who spoke during the sessions for Psychological Services, has also participated in several Career Days. He has been Director of the Performance Enhancement Program at the United States Military Academy in West Point, N.Y. since July 1992. He is in charge of an education-focused program for cadets who want to learn mental skills that will encourage their full potential; Dr. Zinsser

works to develop their confidence, concentration, and composure.

He credits Pingry’s soccer program and coach Miller Bugliari ’52 as major factors in his career choice. “I knew there was something about belief—that belief could be cultivated and expanded to include more people, and that, if you engaged in the process of believing in something powerfully, you could change it.” Dr. Zinsser realized that he wanted to work with that process of belief and work with the intangible.

Along the same lines, he relates a story that still influences his work. Dr. Zinsser was captain of the wrestling team his senior year at Pingry. The team had concluded its second consecutive winning season and was playing in the independent school state tournament at Blair Academy. Dr. Zinsser was facing Blair’s champion in the final round for the championship.

“In the final 16 seconds of that match, for reasons I still don’t understand, I slipped into an altered state of consciousness, where time slowed down, the gym became absolutely silent, and my own mind became absolutely silent. I was able to read my opponent, perform the take-down, and win the tournament. That’s been a very important part of my personal understanding of human performance,” he says.

He is dedicated to helping athletes (he consults with NFL and NHL pros), and other performers in the business, medical, and art fields, find that same kind of personal excellence for themselves.

If you are interested in speaking at Career Day, please contact Director of Alumni Relations and Annual Giving Jackie Sullivan at jsullivan@pingry.org.

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He offered the seniors a lot of career advice: appreciate change, take the initiative, do not fear failure, find a passion, expect surprises, know how to be a good listener, and give back. “[A career] is not just the work aspect, but getting involved in community activities,” he says.

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25th anniversary year for the Class of 1984 and the 50th anniversary year for the Class of 1959 coached football, baseball, and basketball; and served as Director of Athletics. He was the first recipient of the Edward G. Engel Chair for Mathematics and Science, which he held from 1989 to 1992. In 1999, he was inducted into Pingry’s Athletic Hall of Fame and, in 2001, he received the Nelson L. Carr Service Award.

Pingry reached a milestone in 2009 when Reunion Weekend set a new record for attendance: 749 alumni returned, many of whom had not been back since they graduated.

This was the 25th anniversary year for the Class of 1984 and the 50th anniversary year for the Class of 1959.

For the first time, a pen pal program was initiated between current students and alumni. Members of Form I wrote letters to the Class of 1959 before Spring Break in March 2009, and the alumni met their pen pals for the first time in the Wilf Family Commons on Friday morning of Reunion Weekend. The session provided a unique opportunity for the seventh-grade students to be involved with Reunion Weekend.

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Pen pals and alumni met in advisee groups, and students took turns choosing topics from among a predetermined set of questions. These questions included “What did you and your friends do for fun?”, “How did you commute to Pingry when you were a student?”, “What kinds of books and music were popular?” and “How does today’s dress code differ from when you were a student?” The seventh-grade students and alumni shared some fun cross-generational stories.

Also on Friday morning, the Class of 1959 had the opportunity to visit one of three classes: “Literature of Enlightenment,” “Ethical Dilemma,” or “Drafting.”

David Hilyard ’59 during the Pen Pal program with Middle School students in Wilf Commons.

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On Friday afternoon, the annual Fifty-Year Club Luncheon honored the Class of 1959 by inducting each alumnus into Pingry’s “Fifty-Year Club.” Jack Brescher ’65, P ’99, chair of the board of trustees, also recognized Honorary Trustees Mac Bristol ’39, P ’69 and Bill Beinecke ’31, P ’61, ’64 members of the FiftyYear Club, for being instrumental in Pingry’s move to Martinsville. The lunch featured a performance by The Buttondowns. Prior to lunch, former Headmaster Dave Wilson ’59 provided the Invocation.

During the induction ceremony, class agents John Connor ’59, P ’92 and Joe Sichler III ’59 paid tribute to their classmates by reciting highlights of their Pingry activities and career accomplishments. Three members of the class are former members of the Pingry faculty.

Tom Johnson ’59, P ’87 served Pingry for 35 years, from 1966 to 2001. He taught biology and chemistry; served as chair of the science department;

Dan Phillips, Jr. ’59, who was Pingry’s Coordinator of Student Activities, taught Spanish from 1963 to 1977, coached soccer, and founded and directed the Pingry Soccer Camp.

He also created Rufus Gunther Day, which Pingry celebrates every year as a school-wide day of community service and fun.

Dave Wilson ’59 started teaching Middle School math and English at Pingry in 1969 and served as Headmaster from 1980 to 1987, having been appointed to the position when Pingry was preparing to move to Martinsville.

“We have a real appreciation for what Pingry did for our abilities and interests. That individual focus was very special. I was also struck by how many people had long careers with great companies, and by how many have had long marriages,” Mr. Connor says.

All members of the class received a Certificate of Membership, a Pingry tie, a collection of their classmates’ autobiographies, and the graduation issue of The Pingry Record from June 5, 1959. To add to the festivities, John Shea ’59 brought his 1959 Chevy, which was featured in the class photo (see page 54).

Later that afternoon, as part of a reception honoring the 25th anniversary of the Martinsville Campus, Miller Bugliari ’52 offered his perspective on the move from Hillside, and the alumni watched a video about the move. Headmaster Nat Conard, addressing a question about Pingry’s future plans, spoke about an upcoming curriculum review and the need for Pingry to maintain agility and flexibility in all areas.

The Friday evening festivities featured two annual induction ceremonies: Magistri and Athletic Hall of Fame. Read more about the honorees and their accomplishments on pages 24 and 60.

Following these inductions, alumni, faculty, and friends reminisced under the big top, a memorable event that allowed the community to re-connect while enjoying the evening.

The Annual Meeting of the Pingry Alumni Association took place on Saturday afternoon. Miller Bugliari ’52 reported about Alumni Relations’ recent activities, including college luncheons, the introduction of the Senior Class Giving Committee (read about this committee on page 16), Homecoming, dedication of The John Taylor Babbitt ’07 Memorial Field, and Career Day. Headmaster Nat Conard delivered his “State of the School” address, and PAA President Steve Lipper ’79 honored Bruce Morrison ’64 with the Nelson L. Carr Service Award (read about Bruce on page 42).

On Saturday afternoon, the Class of 1959 won the Lawn Bowling competition, an annual match-up between the 25-year class and 50-year class (but the Class of 1984 forfeited).

This continues the streak—the class celebrating their 50th reunion has always won Lawn Bowling. At the same time, the Alumni Lacrosse Game was the first alumni game played on The John Taylor Babbitt ’07 Memorial Field.

Class parties took place on Saturday night at various locations in New Jersey and New York. The Class of 1989 held its 20th Reunion party at the Essex Hunt Club, with more than 100 people attending.

Two of the observations that surfaced during the weekend’s events, relating to 25 years of the Martinsville Campus, are the increase in the arts curriculum and in the number of electives available to students in all subjects.

Mr. Johnson ’59 considered these increases when he reflected on the weekend.

“I enjoyed sharing with my classmates the joy of being on the faculty.

I continue to be amazed by the growth in the arts and in the number of athletic teams. The students’ accomplishments are amazing, as are the facilities available to the students and the diversity in the curriculum,” he says. His wife Joan taught at Pingry from 1987 to 2001, and he has returned to Pingry about once each year since retiring from the faculty.

Interestingly, there are four students from the Class of 1984 who share a unique bond in Pingry history—in fact, some refer to it as a “Pingry trivia question”: they attended the school for 14 years without repeating a grade, and they attended the school on three campuses.

The quartet is Steve Bent ’84 (son of Honorary Trustee John Bent, Jr.), Ed Gray ’84, Joanne Steinhardt ’84, and Melinda Tucker ’84. Their 14th year was pre-Kindergarten at Short Hills Country Day School in the fall of 1969. After the merger with Pingry, they were students at the Short Hills Campus, Hillside Campus, and Martinsville Campus.

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Following the Alumni Meeting, the activities shifted to Hauser Auditorium, where Drama Department Chair Al Romano introduced two of his former students, Gibson Knott ’93 and Ria Cooper ’97. They performed Mr. Knott’s new play Pages in a Book, written for the weekend and inspired by Mr. Knott’s travels, which have included many literary museums. “I’m fascinated by the number of museums devoted to forgotten

authors, and I wondered what would happen if two true enthusiasts— passionate and obsessive people— met in such a place. The characters in the play are almost entirely different, but their shared love of this novelist brings them together with an obsessive force,” Mr. Knott says.

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Harold Monier ’28, Marc Murphy ’69, Amy Murnick ’94, Coach Manny Tramontana, the 1988 Boys’ Soccer Team, and the 1988 Girls’ Soccer Team Every year, Pingry’s Hall of Fame welcomes new members during Reunion Weekend. The event honors former student athletes, varsity coaches, and members of the athletics staff who have demonstrated leadership and whose athletic accomplishments at Pingry have been of the highest caliber.

HAROLD MONIER ’28 (1910-1998) CAPTAIN OF RECORD-BREAKING 1927-28 BASKETBALL TEAM

Harold Monier excelled in basketball during his senior year at Pingry.

In addition to serving as captain of the 1927-28 Basketball Team, Harold was the team’s highest scorer that season with 129 points.

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Pingry won the game 19-0.

He earned eight varsity letters at Pingry: three for basketball, three for football, and two for baseball.

After graduation, Harold attended Williams College, where he played for the varsity basketball team during his sophomore, junior, and senior years. In 1932, he returned to Pingry as head coach of the 1932-33 Basketball Team, and he coached them to a winning record.

Accepting the citation on behalf of their father were Mike Monier ’58, Joe Monier ’64, and David Monier ’56.

MARC W. MURPHY ’69 (1951-2005) TRACK AND CROSS COUNTRY CAPTAIN SET NUMEROUS RECORDS

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That team proved to be the most successful basketball team in Pingry’s history at the time with a record of 15 wins and 4 losses, and the players defeated some of the best teams in New Jersey. In every game, Pingry was leading at the end of the first half. They were Pingry’s first basketball team to win seven consecutive games, and the team advanced to the semi-finals of the State Tournament.

The Pingry Record (1969) called Marc Murphy “one of the finest individual runners ever to perform at Pingry.” His involvement in track spanned his high school career. Marc ran Winter Track all four years, heading the team as captain during his junior and senior years. He ran Spring Track for three years, serving as captain during his senior year. He also ran Cross Country as a senior. Marc broke several records in each of these sports.

As a football player, Harold’s senior year was also memorable because of a game against Newark Academy on November 10, 1927. In the third quarter, Harold jumped to intercept a Newark pass and ran 55 yards for a touchdown. Then, in the fourth

He set or participated in setting several Pingry records in Winter Track.

These included the Mile Relay in 3:36.3 (sophomore year), 2-Mile Relay in 8:34.4 (junior year), and 880-Yard race in 1:56.9 (senior year), which earned him the State Championship.

Mr. Murphy’s brother Glenn Murphy ’74 and Mr. Murphy’s widow Betsey. Mr. Murphy honored his brother Marc for his humility, his love for his country, and his love for his fellow man. He also presented Betsey with Mr. Murphy’s Track spikes.

In his senior year, Marc ran as a member of the mile relay team that set a new standard of 3:33.3.

The records continued in Spring Track. In 1968, Marc was part of the team that set the County record in the 1 7/8-Mile Relay in 7:50.8, and, in the same year, he won both the County and State Championships in the 880-Yard race. In 1969, he added two more school records: the 880 in 1:55.2, which earned him another State Championship, and, as a member of the relay team, the Mile Relay record of 3:24.5. Also in his senior year, Marc set the school record in Cross Country, running the Pingry course in 12:44.

In 1969, Marc received the Centennial Cup, awarded to each graduating class’ most outstanding athlete, and he earned seven varsity letters. He also ran for Princeton University’s track team. He later joined the Air Force and served his country for almost 25 years.

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HIGH SCORER FOR SOCCER, BASKETBALL, AND LACROSSE TEAMS

A four-year member of three varsity teams, Amy Murnick led 11 of the 12 teams in scoring and tallied numerous assists.

Lacrosse Cup, and she earned 12 varsity letters—a rare achievement.

Amy played Division I lacrosse for Duke University and returned to Pingry in 1999 to coach the freshman lacrosse team.

EMANUEL F. TRAMONTANA HEAD COACH OF VARSITY BASEBALL FOR MORE THAN 30 YEARS

Amy Murnick ’94 was joined by her fiancé Mark McKeag, mother Maxine, and sister Lee ’89. When accepting her citation, Ms. Murnick described leadership as not only a title, but also an example a person sets for others.

The leading scorer on the soccer team for three years, Amy scored many game-winning goals, including one in her junior year against previously undefeated Gill St. Bernard’s. She also accounted for all of her team’s goals in a 3-0 victory against previously undefeated Morristown-Beard. Her double-digit scoring that year led the team to the Group 1 State Finals. Amy was named 1st Team All-State Group 1

by The Star-Ledger. She also made 2nd Team All Prep State and 3rd Team All County. As a senior, she was named 2nd Team All County.

During four years on the basketball team, Amy scored over 500 points.

Her senior year, she served as captain and was named to the All Star Prep State team.

Her other Pingry honors included the PSPA Female Athlete Award and the

The Varsity Baseball Team was a three-time champion of the Colonial Hills Conference, in 1999, 2000, and 2002, and they went to the Somerset County finals in 2004 and 2007.

Manny enjoyed a landmark year in 2004, when he was named Somerset County “Coach of the Year” by The Star-Ledger and the Courier News and was selected to the New Jersey Coaches Hall of Fame.

Currently head coach of junior varsity soccer and assistant coach of varsity baseball, Manny has been chair of the mathematics department since 1984.

1988 BOYS’ SOCCER TEAM

UNDEFEATED IN THE REGULAR SEASON FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 10 YEARS Manny Tramontana with his daughter Michaela Di Donna ’87, wife Mary Anna, and daughter Janine ’85. In his speech, Ted Corvino, Jr. ’94 called Mr. Tramontana his mentor and best friend and described him as a “scientist of baseball strategy.”

Manny Tramontana has been coaching a team since 1964, when he joined the Pingry faculty. Early in his Pingry career, he coached freshman soccer, freshman basketball, and freshman baseball, and then he spent 12 years coaching junior varsity basketball and 10 years coaching junior varsity baseball.

He started to coach junior varsity soccer in the fall of 1966 and became head coach in 1969. That same year, the team scored 53 goals to set a new school record. In 1972, the team finished the season 14-1-1 and became co-champions of Union County. Four years later, the team won its first Union County Championship.

Also in 1976, Manny began his 32-year tenure with the Varsity Baseball Team. Under his leadership, the team enjoyed 30 consecutive winning seasons from 1978 to 2007.

In 1986, they defeated Lawrenceville to become champions of the State Prep A Division, and they repeated as division champions in 1992. In

The team finished 17-1-2 and tied Ridge High School in the Somerset County Finals. In the Sectional Finals of the Parochial B tournament, Pingry was the first team to score against St. Benedict’s in 19 games.

1988 GIRLS’ SOCCER TEAM

THE MOST SUCCESSFUL GIRLS’ SOCCER TEAM IN 12 YEARS

The team finished 17-3-1 and won the State Prep School and Somerset County Championships.

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In her first three lacrosse games as a freshman, she scored 16 goals. She led the team in scoring that year and for the next three years. During the 1993 season, she compiled 56 goals.

Then, in 1994, Amy not only set the school record with 83 goals and 23 assists, but also helped Pingry defeat Lawrenceville for the first time, scoring the game-winning goal in the second overtime. The team finished the season ranked No. 6 in the state, and Amy was named to the U.S. Girls’ High School All-American Team.

1994, the team became Parochial B state champions.

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Who are the five Pingry boys in this picture? When and why were they on television, and on which program did they appear? If you know the story behind this photo, please email Greg Waxberg ’96 at gwaxberg@pingry.org. We will publish the answers in the next issue.

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Identifying the students in the Science Club Thanks to the following alumni for contacting us about the picture on page 46, “Science Club,” in the Winter 2009 issue of The Pingry Review: Bob Greenberg ’61 Jack Martin ’61 Eric Neilsen ’61 Tino O’Brien ’61

Richard S. Paget ’87 Dave Rogers ’61 Frank Walter ’61 John Zenno ’61

The answers 1. Alex Shepard ’61 2. Jim Rubin ’61 3. Jack Martin ’61 4. Richard Paget ’61

5. Steve Hart ’61 6. Frank Walter ’61 7. John Zenno ’61

Class Notes 1933

Bob Barrett P ’65 is over 95 years old, still hunts with Rob Hall ’54, P ’79, and gets to the office several times each week.

BIRTHS David Gelber and Kyoko Inouye Gelber welcomed Clara Hiroko Gelber on January 1, 2009. She joins big sister Maya Emiko Gelber.

1953

Frederick Duffy lost his beloved wife of 51 years on December 8, 2008. He is still in real estate with the Van Dyke Group.

Jon Murphy: “Operating well on a ‘peg-leg.’ Not sure if I should get a parrot and an eye-patch. Making and playing stringed instruments (harp, psaltery, dulcimer, lute, and guitar). Also doing woodturnings and carvings. Hope to be back to golf this season, getting used to the prosthetic leg.”

1955

John Ward visited with his brother Richard B. Ward ’58 in November in Mechanicsburg, Pa., and they saw the Civil War Museum at Gettysburg.

John is active in his retirement on Cape Cod, and he keeps busy with gardening, bridge, and playing music at the senior center.

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Kurt Christensen is living in Ireland this year as a visiting faculty member at University College Dublin’s Smurfit School of Business.

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John Wight ’62, P ’03, Mary Wight, Miller Bugliari ’52, P ’86, ’90, ’97, and John Connor P ’92

How do College Students Seem to Learn Best? Ask Rob Badger ’69 During his 20 years as a geology professor at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Potsdam, and nine years as Geology Department chair, Rob Badger ’69, as with most teachers, has been frustrated at times by the difficulty of connecting with certain students.

To explore how to improve teaching, enhance learning, and make the classroom more interesting, Dr. Badger spearheaded, edited, and wrote a chapter for a book entitled Ideas That Work in College Teaching, published in late 2008 by SUNY Press. Fifteen SUNY faculty members representing 13 different disciplines each contributed a chapter to discuss their approaches to teaching.

“These fifteen chapters offer ideas and philosophies that we have found successful.

The basic theme is to try whatever works.

Nothing works for all students; nearly everything works for at least a few,” Dr. Badger writes in the preface. The concept is that a teaching technique used by a physics professor may also work in a sociology class, or a method used successfully in an art class may be adapted for a geology class.

His chapter is titled “You Can Teach a Rock New Tricks.” Dr. Badger explains that many

of his introductory geology students had difficulty making basic observations about what they did and saw during field trips. Recalling a technique used by his undergraduate economics professor at Middlebury College, Dr. Badger tested the effectiveness of thirdperson writing.

For lab projects conducted in the field, he instructed his students to write a letter to a fictitious person, an imaginary Aunt Bertha or Uncle Ralph, describing what they did or saw during the field trip. He found that, if students address an audience removed from the scene, they often do a better job of putting their observations into words than they would if they were writing for the professor or anyone else who had seen the area. This concept of third-person writing, often used in literature classes and less often in the social sciences, was readily transferable to a physical science class, with rewarding results.

Dr. Badger hopes other teachers will find the book beneficial. “I hope people see something and think, ‘I can try that,’” he says. He is also the author of Geology along Skyline Drive, Shenandoah National Park.

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Professor A. Harding Ganz and his wife Diane cruised the Mediterranean last summer from Barcelona to Istanbul. Objects and anecdotes for teaching history at The Ohio State University’s Newark, Ohio Campus.

Clara and Maya Gelber

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membership organizations.

The NES provides scholarships to academically-qualified but financially-challenged New York City students attending New England colleges and universities (www.nesnyc.org).

1971

Miller Bugliari ’52, P ’86, ’90, ’97 catches up with Ernie Moody on the West Coast this past spring

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David Fairfield: “I have been editing and producing television shows in Hollywood for the last 30 years. I have also been nominated for two national primetime Emmy Awards and won a CableAce Award, all for editing. Anyone who is interested can check out my credits at: www.imdb. com/name/nm0265581/.”

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J. Scott Glascock has been elected President of the New England Society in the City of New York. Founded in 1805, the NES is one of the country’s oldest charitable

Sherman English: “I assumed the position of Assistant Head of School at Billings Middle School in Seattle, Wash. as of this past summer. It focuses specifically on middle school students. It is a young school, but offers an incredible experience, combining a program of rigorous academics with extensive outdoor experiences which extend the learning occurring in the classroom.

Moving to Seattle has proven to be a smart move for both Kay and me and has brought us closer to our children (Eric Sachs ’89 and Kevin Sachs ’91) and three granddaughters who live in California.

We also have the wonders of incredible outdoor opportunities right in our back yard.”

1972

John Blossom: “Hope all is well at Pingry. I am now President of Shore Communications Inc., a research and consulting firm

providing decision support services for publishing and technology company executives. I recently published a book titled Content Nation, which focuses on how social media publishing is changing our work, our lives, and our future around the world.”

1973

Odell Guyton, Microsoft Corp.

Director of Compliance and a trustee for Moravian College, has been named one of the “100 Most Influential People in Business Ethics 2008” by Ethisphere magazine. Also named to the prestigious list were President Barack Obama, Financier T. Boone Pickens, and Pulitzer Prize winner Thomas Friedman. The Ethisphere article says, “Guyton has had to deal with as much as a Director of Compliance can ever hope (or fear) to deal with in one year, and it never seems to end. He’s been forced into the position as a leader in these matters, as Microsoft dealt with anti-trust issues (and others) all around the globe.” In addition to serving as Senior Corporate Attorney for Microsoft, Odell is co-chair of the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics. He is married to Karen Boyer Guyton ’78.

1975

Peter Hiscano: “On January 9, 2008, 14 former soccer players and Pingry graduates from the ’70s got together at the Morris County Golf Club to catch up with Coach Miller Bugliari ’52. It was quite a surprise to see my old J.V. coach Manny Tramontana show up, topped only by the appearance of world-famous former soccer star Giorgio Chinaglia, who regaled us for three hours about his playing days with the Cosmos and the Italian National Soccer Team.”

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Miller Bugliari ’52, P ’86, ’90, ’97 and Scott Russell IV

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2nd row, from left: Stu Lederman ’78, Charlie Louria ’77, P ’09, ’11, Doug Hiscano ’77, P ’08, ’11, Martin O’Connor ’77, P ’11, ’14, Jack Fields ’76, Miller Bugliari ’52, P ’86, ’90, ’97, Charlie Stillitano ’77, P ’14, ’17, Faculty Member and Coach Manny Tramontana P ’85, ’87, Peter Hiscano ’75, Jonathan Shelby ’74, P ’08, ’11, Leo Stillitano ’76, and Guy Cipriano ’74, P ’06, ’08. 1st row, from left: Philip Haselton ’77, P ’12, Giorgio Chinaglia, Sean O’Donnell ’75, P ’05, ’10, Chip Carver ’77, P ’09, ’11, ’14, and Chris “Scurvy” Scott ’74.

Jane Sarkin O’Connor P ’11, ’14 is features editor of Vanity Fair and heads up the magazine’s coverage of Hollywood, a responsibility that includes decisions on cover stories and celebrity features. In the April issue of Avenue magazine, she and famed photographer Annie Leibovitz talked about their collaborative working relationship, their friendship, and some behind-the-scenes career highlights from the past 25 years. Jane was also profiled in the May “Power Issue” of Gotham magazine as one of six media magnates in

New York City who both create and report on the culture of our times.

Edus “Hootie” Warren: “I am a former varsity soccer player, and I wanted to send my congratulations to Miller Bugliari and the boys’ varsity soccer team on the occasion of their 15th Somerset County Championship. Well done!

I may be 2,500 miles away from Martinsville, but it still warms my heart to read about the exploits of Miller and his teams. For that matter, I love reading about the girls’ varsity soccer team, as well, but keep in mind that Pingry had no girls’ soccer team when I attended the school back in the Middle Ages (when it was still located in Hillside).”

1978 Margaret Corbet was named one of the top 1,000 financial advisers in the nation according to the February 2009 issue of Barron’s. The rankings were based on factors such as assets under management, revenues, the quality of their practice, and their regulatory records. The Barron’s list represents just over 1 percent of all advisers who work at large financial firms. Maggie is currently a Senior Vice President and Portfolio Manager in the Wealth Management division of Morgan Stanley Smith Barney in Fort Lauderdale.

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Adam Pratt and his wife Megan are living happily in Fairfield, Conn. with their children Caroline (5), James (3), and Andrew (1).

BIRTHS

The McCutchan boys

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Marc S. Feldstein, M.D. lives with his wife Susie and their three children in Glenview, Ill. He was recently promoted to Associate Professor of Clinical Obstetrics & Gynecology at Northwestern University Medical School.

He is also on the Board of Directors of Chicago’s Lincoln Park Zoo, where he serves as the OB/GYN advisor on the zoo’s Medical Advisory Committee. Marc is also on the Medical Advisory Board of Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium.

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Jennifer Hartstein: “2008 was another great year, filled with lots of excitement and change. I am now in full-time private practice as a child and adolescent psychologist in

New York City, leaving the hospital systems in which I worked for many years. Even more exciting, I got married to Mat Field in April.

Joanna Westrich Brody was in attendance and helped me celebrate the big day!”

1989 Brooke Bickley McCutchan: “My husband Mark and I and our four boys, Drew (10), Carter (9), and twins Eli and Luke (5), relocated to Athens, Ohio in 2007. We are enjoying the small college town life with plenty of outdoor activities to keep the family busy. I am working as an Assistant Director of Product Management for Diagnostic Hybrids, a privately-held medical diagnostics company, and loving it!”

Laura Jones Van Hise and Chuck Van Hise are pleased to announce the birth of Nathan Charles, born September 7, 2008. He joins big brothers David (6) and Alex (3). All continue to enjoy living in Boston. Chuck is currently working as a vice president of Corporate Cash Management for Cambridge Savings Bank. Laura is at home, on the run after three little boys.

1991 BIRTHS Hanny (Landau) Newlander and her husband Jamison were thrilled to welcome their first child on August 15, 2008. Nathan Dov Newlander weighed 7 pounds, 14 ounces and measured 20 1/2 inches.

Nathan is also the grandson of Pingry history faculty member Madeline Landau. The newly-expanded Newlanders live in North Hollywood, Calif. with their two cats.

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1993 From left: Tom Logio, Eric Stone, David Zenker ’72, Miller Bugliari ’52, P ’86, ’90, ’97, Will Pappas, 1989

David Greig ’98, and Scott Aimetti

Jacquelynn Henke is working with Harvard University’s Allston Development Group as the Manager for Sustainability and Senior Project Manager for the new

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Nathan Dov Newlander

Allston Campus just across the Charles River from the main campus. The 50-year campus master plan calls for 10 million square feet of construction across 300 acres, and her role is to ensure that the development utilizes the most sustainable means and methods.

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1999

Nicole Narcisco and Kevin Branin welcomed their first child, Sienna Kassidy Branin, into the world on February 7, 2009.

Sienna Kassidy Branin

Byron Wong and his wife Jennifer welcomed their second child, Madison, on Election Day 2008. She weighed 5 pounds, 4 ounces.

Egan and Madison Wong

WEDDINGS Hilary Sunyak married Christopher Ulz ’93 on September 13, 2008, in Newport, R.I.

1993 Miller Bugliari ’52, P ’86, ’90, ’97 and Mary Moan

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Matthew Mandelbaum is the co-founder and managing partner of PsySoEd Dynamics LLC, which performs Research, Development, Consulting, and Education Services in the Psychology, Sociology, and Education Fields. He developed and recently enjoyed the successful debut of Jumping Joey’s Numberline™ (www.jumpingjoeysnumberline.com), a child-centered, multi-sensory arithmetic learning system for Pre-K through Elementary school students. It promotes math proficiency and longterm understanding, while also fostering a love of learning math. Matthew credits his abilities to develop such products and services in part to his time at Pingry, especially to his experiences in the fine and performing arts.

BIRTHS Jane and Christian Hoffman welcomed their second daughter, Claire Everett, on February 10, 2009.

Lisa Kothari and a fellow classmate from Temple University Law School won the ABA Tax Challenge and were awarded an additional prize for the Best Written Submission. An alternative to traditional moot court competitions, the Law Student Tax Challenge asks twoperson student teams to solve a cutting-edge and complex business problem that might arise in everyday tax practice.

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Claire Everett Hoffman

Arianna Papasikos has been accepted into a post-graduate dental specialty program at the University of Southern Nevada, where she will be receiving both an Orthodontic degree and an M.B.A. She is heading west from Manhattan and will be in Las Vegas for the next three years.

2002 Lauren Callaghan is living in New York and working in the Real Estate Investment Banking Group at Goldman Sachs. She ran the springtime Paris Marathon and did some summer skiing in Argentina.

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From left: Nick Ross ’97, Chris Marzoli ’97, Brian Fields, Chris Runnells ’95, Michelle Cardona Emmitt, Palmer Emmitt, Rob Siegelbaum, Dave Bugliari ’97, and Mike Corcoran

Tom Rosenberg has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study in Sri Lanka. Since graduating from Pingry, Tom has attended Columbia College in N.Y., taken a year off to teach English in Bordeaux, studied

on February 8, 5-4, to win the Ivy League Championship.

Maggie had a big win in the 5-4 semi-final victory over Trinity and helped Princeton reach the finals.

Sarah Tarplin graduated cum laude from Georgetown University with a regent’s medal in Spanish. She will be working at National Cancer Institute of the NIH in the mammary biology and tumorigenesis lab and will be applying to medical school.

1996

From left: Jamie Sunyak, Heather Spiller, Holland Sunyak ’02, Hilary Sunyak Ulz, Christopher Ulz ’93, Michael Ulz ’93, Andrew Siuda ’93, Marcus Sunyak ’93, and Robb Grantham ’94

for a semester in Dharamsala, India (including with the Dalai Lama), graduated from Columbia, and taught in Bangkok for nine months.

2004

Halley Wegryn Gross was the youngest finalist and a winner

Maggie O’Toole and her parents, Terry and Polly O’Toole

and has already graduated from NYU’s Gallatin School magna cum laude with a degree in comedy writing.

2005

Julie Ann Aueron earned her Bachelor of Science degree in May 2009 from the George Washington University, where she double majored in Exercise Science and Dance. While attending GWU, Julie Ann was the recipient of the Presidential Scholarship in the Arts in dance for four years. She was a member of the Alpha Phi Fraternity and has served as her chapter’s Vice President of Program Development and Director of House Activities. Julie Ann will attend Columbia University’s Doctor of Physical Therapy program as a member of their Class of 2012.

Maggie O’Toole and her teammates at Princeton University won the Women’s National Squash Championship on February 15, 2009, for the third consecutive year, beating Harvard in a 5-4 thriller in the finals. The win capped an undefeated season and came after the Tigers beat Harvard

Adam Pantel, a foil fencer, was the first Brown University fencer to be designated “Fencer of the Year” for the Northeast Fencing Conference, a league of 24 collegiate teams and 350 fencers. He also became the first men’s fencer at Brown to earn First Team All-Ivy honors, and he recently competed at the NCAA National Fencing Championships at Penn State where he was named an Honorable Mention All-American.

2008

Dan Weiniger played as a forward on the 2009 Boys’ Varsity Hockey Team during his post-graduate year at Phillips Exeter Academy. He was named First Team AllDivision I New England Prep and led that division in goals and points. Exeter reached the finals of the New England Prep Championships for the first time since 1999. Dan is heading to Bowdoin College to play hockey for the Polar Bears in the Division III New England Small College Athletic Conference.

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of The Great Plains Theatre Conference’s mainstage series.

Out of over 400 submissions by many professional playwrights, her full-length play “Inherited” was workshopped and presented Memorial Day Weekend 2009 on the Main Stage. She is completing her M.F.A. in Dramatic Writing at New York University

2006

In Memoriam Paul J. Hanna February 26, 2009, Key Largo, Fla.

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Mr. Hanna, a former Pingry trustee, was born in Canonsburg, Pa. He graduated with honors from the University of Pittsburgh and later graduated from the Credit and Financial Management School at Dartmouth College. In 1941, he enlisted as a Private in the Army and rose to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the 101st Airborne Division. He received the Bronze Star, Belgian Croix de Guerre, Dutch Order of William, Presidential Citation with Cluster, and the World War II Victory Medal. After the war, he spent 32 years at Manufacturers Hanover Corporation in New York, in charge of its banking in the eastern half of the United States. Later in his career at the Holding Company, he developed its financial-related businesses in consumer finance, leasing, and mortgage banking.

Mr. Hanna also served as a director of United Jersey Banks and several of its subsidiaries. He retired early as Executive Vice President of Manufacturers Hanover to become Vice Chairman of GEICO Corporation in Washington, D.C. and Chairman of its financial services company in Denver. While at GEICO, he negotiated the purchase of 25 percent interest in AVEMCO, a general aviation insurance company, and served on its board for 15 years. Later, he negotiated the purchase of Manufacturers Hanover Mortgage Company for Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company and served on its board for several years. Over the years, Mr. Hanna served on the boards of 45 companies in banking, insurance, and financial-related businesses. He also served on the board of Rider University for many years and as its Chairman for three years. He received an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws from Rider in 1989.

He founded and served as President of the Hanna Foundation, which has provided philanthropic support for many causes. He also served as President of the board of the Ocean Reef Medical Center and helped build its Foundation of which he had also served as President. His first wife Grace died in 1989 after 43 years of marriage. His second wife Joan died in 1999.

He is survived by his two sons, Paul II ’65 and Lee ’67, their wives, and his five grandchildren. He is also survived by a step-son and step-daughter, their spouses, and four step-grandchildren.

Donald Moriarty April 15, 2009, age 78, Summit, N.J.

Mr. Moriarty, a former Pingry trustee, attended the College of the Holy Cross on a football scholarship, and he graduated with an A.B. degree in English.

He served in the U.S. Army from 1953 to 1956, then attended Law School and Business School at New York University. He began his career as a securities analyst at Bankers Trust and became managing partner of William A.M. Burden & Company, where he managed investments for the Burden family and the Florence V. Burden Foundation.

In 1991, he founded the investment management firm Twin Oaks Partners and served as its general partner until his death. In addition to his business career, Mr. Moriarty devoted himself to both public and private service. In 1970, he joined the Summit Board of Education and served as its president in 1975. He also served on the Board of Trustees at Holy Cross for three decades and provided leadership as its chairman. In 2008, he was awarded an Honorary Degree by Holy Cross for his many years of leadership, support, and devotion.

He is survived by his wife, Mary Eileen, seven children, 24 grandchildren, and sisters.

Elizabeth “Betty” Beinecke April 14, 2009, age 89, New York, N.Y.

Mrs. Beinecke, of New York, Chatham, Mass., and Gulf Stream, Fla., is survived by her husband, Honorary Trustee William S. Beinecke ’31, who was instrumental in Pingry’s move from Hillside to Martinsville. She is also survived by their sons Rick ’61 and John ’64; daughters Sarah and Frances; seven grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren; and her sister.

Edith P. Bruning June 29, 2008, age 97, Elizabeth, N.J.

Mrs. Bruning was married to the late Dr. Richard H. Bruning ’26, and she was the sister of Martin B. O’Connor ’26, also a Pingry trustee; both men were members of the Class that established Pingry’s Honor Code in 1926. She is survived by two nephews, former Trustee and Pingry parent Martin B. O’Connor II ’77 and Richard R. O’Connor, Jr., and their wives. She is also survived by her daughter, son-in-law, three stepsons, four grandchildren, one great-grandson, three step-grandchildren, and two step-great-grandchildren.

Churchill H. Brace ’30

Clayton B. Jones, Jr. ’35

July 28, 2008, age 97, Sinking Spring, Pa.

June 2, 2007, age 89, Zephyrhills, Fla.

Mr. Brace was born in Toledo, Ohio, and graduated from New York University with a B.S. in Business Administration in 1937. He served as a Personnel Officer for Aetna Steel, and then for Wernersville State Hospital from 1969 to 1987. He is survived by three daughters, nine grandchildren, and 14 great-grandchildren.

Kendrick R. Wilson, Jr. ’30 May 11, 2008, age 95, Vero Beach, Fla.

Mr. Wilson was born in Elizabeth, N.J. on January 2, 1913, and graduated from Dartmouth College. He worked at U.S. Trust Company in New York City and then served as a Lieutenant Commander in the Navy from 1941 until the end of World War II. In 1946, Mr. Wilson joined Lehman Brothers as an investment banker. In 1950, he joined Avco Corporation as a Vice President; he worked as Avco’s Chief Executive Officer from 1960 to 1969 and as its Chairman from 1960 to 1974. He also served on the boards of prominent corporations, including Avon Products and Pitney Bowes. In 1969, President Nixon appointed Mr. Wilson to the Advisory Council for Minority Enterprise. In addition to Katharine, his wife of 62 years, he is survived by his brother, two sisters, two daughters, two sons, 10 grandchildren, and seven great-grandchildren.

William E. Buckley ’32 December 17, 2008, age 95, Palm Beach, Fla.

David B. Ressler ’37 August 10, 2008, age 89

Mr. Ressler was born on November 28, 1918, in St. Louis, Mo. and graduated from Yale University in 1941.

From 1941 to 1943, he served on the destroyer U.S.S. Buchanan in the Pacific. He was a civic leader in Quogue, N.Y. for the past 30 years, serving in many government offices. He is survived by three sons and six grandchildren.

Dr. Thomas B. Shrewsbury ’37 September 2, 2008, age 87, Portland, Ore.

Dr. Shrewsbury was born in Concord, Mass. on December 12, 1920. His father Roy R. Shrewsbury taught music and math at Pingry for 23 years and started Pingry’s guidance program. His mother also taught remedial reading at the Parker Road campus. His brother George attended Pingry until his death in 1936. Dr. Shrewsbury played on the baseball team for four years and was captain of the team his senior year. He graduated from Harvard College, having also been captain of their swim team. Following World War II and two years in business in Boston, he received his masters and doctorate degrees from Columbia University. In World War II, he served as Naval Communications Officer, working closely with Marine landing forces in several Pacific invasions from the Solomon Islands to Iwo Jima. Following graduate work, he spent six years as associate dean of students at City College of New York, Hofstra College, and San Francisco State College. He then spent 35 years as a psychological consultant to management, specializing in management counseling and organizational development.

For 20 years, he ran his own business. Survivors include his wife Gertrude, two sons, and three grandchildren.

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Born on October 6, 1913, Mr. Buckley graduated from the University of Pennsylvania. He served during World War II as a lieutenant commander in the U.S. Naval Reserve, stationed in Washington, D.C. After his naval service, he began a career in the book publishing business, starting at Cowles Communications, where he rose to vice president and director of the book division. He moved to Curtis Publishing Co. as a vice president and director of Henry Holt & Co., where he also served on the board of directors. He also was vice president of the World Publishing Co., the McCall Corp., and Doubleday.

In 1971, he and his wife of 37 years, Virginia, moved to Palm Beach, where he began a 35-year career in real estate. Mr. Buckley is survived by his wife Virginia, daughter, son, two grandsons, and other family members.

Mr. Jones was born in Elizabeth, N.J. on October 27, 1917. He graduated from Amherst College and served as a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy in the South Pacific in World War II. He headed the cotton departments at the firms of Scatterty & Jones and Hornblower & Weeks in New York, and he was a commodities analyst at Bache & Co. He served on several boards, including The Pingry School. Predeceased by his former wife, he is survived by their three children and two grandchildren. He is also survived by his second wife Joan, her four children, eight grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren.

[ in memoriam ] Wade B. Lewis, Jr. ’41 February 12, 2008, age 85, Cape Coral, Fla.

Born in Newark, N.J., Mr. Lewis volunteered in the U.S. Air Force during World War II after Pearl Harbor. He served as a Captain and a fighter pilot in the 5th Air Force 49th Fighter Group 9th Squadron, which operated in the Pacific Theatre. Later in life, he was a SWFL Project Manager for GAC Properties and then worked for Publix for 16 years. Mr. Lewis is survived by his sister, five children, and four grandchildren. He was predeceased by his wife of 53 years, Sally.

Samuel Anderson McKeown ’43 October 19, 2008, age 82, Chatham, N.J.

Mr. McKeown graduated from Princeton University, the Stonier School of Banking, and Rutgers Law School. He was a retired trust officer and vice president of the Fidelity Union Trust Company. In addition to his wife Joan, daughter, and sons Robert ’77 and William ’80, he is survived by other family members, including 10 grandchildren.

Vincent P. Kuhn, Sr. ’44

and received a law degree in 1959. He returned to New Jersey and practiced law for 33 years with the firm Pollis, Williams, Pappas, & Dillon. He was predeceased by his older brother. He is survived by his wife of 55 years, Frances, and their son, daughter-in-law, and three granddaughters.

Jack Walker ’47 October 23, 2008, age 80, Hellertown, Pa.

Mr. Walker was born in Hillside, N.J. on March 12, 1928, and earned his degree at Syracuse University. He served in the National Guard for 15 years and then worked in sales for Morris Machinery, a family business, until the mid 1970s. In 1997, he was inducted into Pingry’s Athletic Hall of Fame as a member of the 1947 Track Team. Mr. Walker sang in many choruses, including the Vermont Choral Festival and Advent Choral Festival in Vienna, Austria. He was the husband of Patricia A. Hunt Walker and the late Betty L. Lindabury Walker. In addition to his wife of 27 years, Patricia, he is survived by his four children, grandchildren, nieces, and nephews.

A brother, Fred M. Walker ’47, died earlier.

November 11, 2008, age 83, Cape May, N.J.

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Mr. Kuhn was born in Elizabeth, N.J. He entered the U. S. Army after graduating from Pingry, served in the 29th Infantry Division (the European Theater), and received the Purple Heart and two Oak Leaf clusters for injuries suffered in combat. He returned from the war and attended St. Vincent’s College, where he graduated with a degree in business administration. He began his career at Commercial Credit as a loan officer and worked for many years at Elizabeth Federal S & L, later Arch Federal S & L, as a mortgage officer, rising to become vice-president and secretary of the bank. Mr. Kuhn married Virginia Nickas in 1951 and they raised nine children. He was predeceased by his wife and sister.

He is survived by his three brothers, nine children, 20 grandchildren, and many nieces and nephews.

Dr. Robert J. Blahut ’50 February 9, 2009, age 76, San Mateo, Calif.

Dr. Blahut was born on February 11, 1932, and grew up in Dunellen, N.J. While at Pingry, he played tennis and basketball. He graduated from Princeton University and the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University.

He served two years in the Air Force before moving to San Mateo, where he was a radiologist at Peninsula Hospital in Burlingame, Calif. for 35 years. He is survived

by Virginia, his wife of 53 years, four children, and five grandchildren.

David Stewart Roberts, Jr. ’50 December 9, 2008, age 76, Fairfield, Conn.

Colin Miller Dillon ’47 February 20, 2009, age 79, Atlanta, Ga.

Mr. Dillon was born on May 31, 1929, in Elizabeth, N.J. He graduated from the University of Virginia, where he was a two-time all-university boxing champ, with a B.S. in Biology. After four years of service in the Air Force during the Korean War, Mr. Dillon returned to the university

Mr. Roberts, who was born in Elizabeth, N.J. on February 4, 1932, was a veteran of the Korean War. He received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Carnegie Institute of Technology and an M.B.A. from Columbia University.

Mr. Roberts spent many years consulting in the manufacturing industry and was the founder of Gourmet Gardens, a hydroponics gardening entity for which he had a patented design. Mr. Roberts is survived by his wife Martha, two children, grandchildren, two sisters, four nephews, and four nieces.

Alistair C. Fyfe ’51

William Stanley Stevens ’66

March 24, 2009, New Providence, N.J.

December 3, 2008, age 60, Anchorage, Ala.

Thomas E. Platt, Jr. ’51 July 21, 2008, age 74, Clinton Township, N.J.

Mr. Platt was born on December 12, 1933, in Plainfield, N.J. and graduated from Lehigh University in 1955.

He was an international autograph dealer; his company was known as Cordelia & Tom Platt Autographs in Clermont, Fla. He is survived by his sister, two sons, eight grandchildren, and several cousins.

Ronald H. Post ’52 July 17, 2008, age 74, Greenville, S.C.

Mr. Post was born in Plainfield, N.J. and graduated from Dartmouth College. He served in the U.S. Army as captain of the Army tennis team and editor of the Army newspaper. He worked for Deering Milliken and Dan River Mills, and then, in 1985, established R.H. Post & Associates, a textile brokerage firm. He is survived by his wife Val Jackson Post, two daughters, and three grandchildren.

Dr. John “Jack” T. English ’56 October 20, 2008, age 70, La Crosse, Wis.

Born in Irvington, N.J. on February 6, 1938, Dr. English graduated from Williams College and the Cornell Medical School.

He was a radiologist at the SwedishAmerican Hospital from 1971 to 1987. He came to La Crosse in 1987 and was a radiologist with the Franciscan-Skemp Medical Center until his retirement.

He is survived by his wife Julie, daughter Beth, sons James, Michael, and John, and three grandchildren.

Richard E. Strassner ’65 May 2, 2008, age 61, Wellington, Fla.

Alan Moore Campbell ’71 November 6, 2008, age 55, Madison, Conn.

Born in South Orange, N.J. on March 7, 1953, Mr. Campbell attended Alfred University. He was a chef and, for many years, general manager of the Saybrook Fish House. He then worked for Aloha Computer Company. He was predeceased by his father J. Colin Campbell. He is survived by his mother, brother, two sisters, and two nieces.

Paulette “Bunnie” Johnson February 9, 2009, Union, N.J.

Ms. Johnson, a former parent, is survived by Pingry student Auriel Dickey ’09 and fiancé Ryan Bussey. She had three sisters. She is also survived by a sister-in-law, two nieces, two nephews, one great-nephew, and other relatives.

James C.T. Devereaux III December 16, 2008, age 53, Linden, N.J.

A native of Newark, N.J., Mr. Devereaux was a member of Pingry’s grounds staff from September 1980 to December 1983. He was predeceased by one of his sons, James C.T. Devereaux IV. He is survived by his wife Katharina, second son, two brothers, three sisters, and two grandchildren.

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Mr. Strassner was born in St. Louis, Mo. on February 11, 1947, and grew up in both St. Louis and Summit, N.J. He received his B.S. in Engineering from Cornell University and his Masters of Industrial Administration from Union College. He served as a Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy. His career in dielectric films led him to start his own company, Converting Specialists, where he designed and built machinery for the electronics industry. He is survived by his wife Pamela Windsor Strassner, brother Kenneth ’64, two daughters, brother-in-law, niece, and three nephews.

Mr. Stevens, who served as an officer in the U.S. Navy from 1970 to 1972, was born in Orange, N.J. He graduated from Yale University in 1970 and the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1975.

He wrote an anonymous article for the Law Review titled “The Common Law Origins of the Infield Fly Rule”—about the relationship between baseball’s infield fly rule and the development of common law—which continues to be cited by courts and legal commentators. Mr. Stevens worked for law firms in the Philadelphia area and wrote many articles for and served on the Editorial Board of The Philadelphia Lawyer, the magazine of the Philadelphia Bar Association. In September 2008, Mr. Stevens retired from the American Law Institute—American Bar Association (ALI-ABA), having worked with lawyers and judges across the country to administer legal education programs. Most recently, he had accepted a year-long assignment as acting director of continuing legal education for the Alaska Bar Association. He was predeceased by his mother. He is survived by his father, brother, two sisters, two nephews, and niece.

[ dictum ultimum ]

By Honorary Trustee Fred Bartenstein, Jr. P ’68, ’70, ’72, ’75

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A member of the board recently asked me whether, because of the risks taken in the campus move, a secret guarantor had been standing by to bail us out if we had failed.

I told him no, but, indeed, serious risks had been taken. Moving a campus is a difficult thing to do.

You have to sell old facilities when funds are needed to pay for new ones. New buildings must be put in place and finished in time to house students forced out of the old ones. A binding commitment to sell an old campus becomes a binding commitment to build a new one, and the reverse of that is true. Either becomes “a leap across the canyon.” Control of the timing is vital if you expect to land on the other side.

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We had almost no control of our timing. Early efforts to sell the old campus failed, high inflation rates threatened, and burgeoning environmental controls on open land stopped us in our tracks. Getting government approval for sanitation facilities needed to get a building permit, needed to get a spade in the ground as the costs of construction grew, came to be one of the most time-consuming

the several-million dollar loan we had arranged with a consortium of New Jersey banks, not his—to continue construction in Bernards Township.

“They’ll never get that back,” he said.

“Yes, they will,” I told him.

and, therefore, dangerous of the obstacles we had to face.

The students came, the teachers taught, and the board labored on.

Funding was a challenge. Bill Beinecke ’31 furnished the vision and spark that started it off, and he would ultimately give us a major portion of the land. Bob Parsons, Connie English ’29, Harry Hoyt ’45, Mac Bristol ’39, Dave Baldwin ’47, and Joe Engel ’35 were among the first doers and major supporters (but I must stay within the boundaries of this page).

We finally reached a point where decisions could be made, and I recall another conversation—this time with a bank executive concerning

Was that bravado? From the time I had become a trustee, and even more in the years of concentrating on the campus move, I had come to know the intensity of regard, respect, and affection former students feel for their school. Germinating in the classroom, taking root in students, growing among alumni, it is real and remarkable. To someone who had never attended the school, it became a given that the entire Pingry community would stand behind its school in a crisis. That also must have become a given, implicitly at least, in the minds of my fellow board members, all of whom stuck with the project through thick and thin.

Leaps could be taken.

As far as I am concerned, it was Pingry that made the leap possible— and so made the leap itself—to replant and restore itself for its future. Looking at it surrounded by its green fields now, what you see is the Pingry that has always been, including those years of the campus move, and what now lies ahead.

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Saturday, September 12

l Alumnae Soccer Game

calendar of upcoming eventsl

9:00 a.m.

Miller Bugliari ’52 World Cup Field Martinsville Campus

Tuesday, October 27

Lehigh Valley College Luncheon Location and time TBA

Alumni Soccer Game

Cornell University College Dinner

Wednesday, October 14

Alumni Admission Open House

11:00 a.m.

Miller Bugliari ’52 World Cup Field Martinsville Campus

Washington, D.C. College Luncheon 12:00 p.m.

Clyde’s of Georgetown

Washington, D.C. Reception 7:00 p.m.

The Army and Navy Club

6:30 p.m.

Location TBA

6:30 p.m.

Short Hills Campus

Wednesday, October 28

Hamilton College Luncheon 12:00 p.m.

Location TBA

Colgate College Dinner 6:00 p.m.

Location TBA

For more details visit: http://www.pingry.org/alumni/newsevents.html

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