A Visit to the Archives
ABOVE: Minutes from 1940s and 1950s Board of Trustee meetings. BELOW: Minutes from Short Hills Country Day School meetings, prior to the Pingry years.
Reorganizing Records Yearbooks, newspapers, magazines, photography, videos, and trophies are a few of the obvious, visible aspects of Pingry’s archives . . . but other internal materials are central to Pingry’s history and record-keeping. Recently, the Archives took over the School’s records management. What does this encompass? For starters, minutes from Board of Trustees meetings and Financial Committee meetings. Then, Archivist Peter Blasevick P ’24 has the not-so-small task of reorganizing and cataloging over 10,000 student records and campus documents in the Vault (a secure, climate-controlled room separate from the main Archives room) and preparing long-term storage of financial records. “The Archives program is growing. Adding records to the collection makes sense so that people have one place to go to find what they need,” Mr. Blasevick says. “Organizing internal documents is essential to helping Pingry run efficiently.”
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THE PINGRY REVIEW | WINTER 2021-22
