Boys’ Winter Track Update 2019-2020
By Sarah Kloss (IV) The boys’ winter track team is returning with a strong lineup this year. Despite losing a handful of senior players, the team still has fifteen boys, including five new freshmen. With both new and returning runners, Head Coach Chris Shilts says,...
Girls’ Winter Track Update 2019-2020
By Walker Johnson (V) The girls’ winter track team, led by captains Dylan Anidjar (VI) and Kier Brown (VI), is looking to carry their great successes from last spring into the winter season. Last spring, two relay squads made it to nationals. This year, the team is...
Girls’ Ice Hockey Update 2019-2020
By Emily Shen (IV) With Mrs. Whitman Annis as Head Coach, the Girls’ Ice Hockey team is ready to continue their last year’s legacy. This year, with many new players joining the team, Head Captain Lizzie Gilfillan (VI) and Assistant Captains Allie...
Boys’ Ice Hockey Update 2019-2020
By Marc Bliemel (IV) Coming off a great season last year, the boys’ ice hockey team is hoping for another strong season. Last year, the team finished 19-3-1 overall, and 13-1 in their conference. With returning scorers and play-makers, including Eric Bush (V) and...
Girls’ Fencing Update 2019-2020
By Anjola Olawoye (III) The girls’ fencing team anticipates a promising season this year. Led by captains Allision Lee (VI) and Jamie Wang (VI), the team is hoping to build upon its past success. Last year, the team ended their season with a 6-7 record and had success...
Boys’ Fencing Update 2019-2020
By Caleb Park (III) This year, boys fencing is ready for anything. Although the team is still in the middle of preseason, they are confident of success in the upcoming season. Several new fencers have arrived from the middle school, including Charles Jiang (III), Andy...
Girls’ Swimming Update 2019-2020
By Kyra Li Led by co-captains Emily Sanchez (VI), Martha Lewand (VI), Madeline Skapper (VI), and Coach Deirdre O’Mara, the girls’ swim team has started off strong with early morning and weight room practices. Coming off of a stunning season last year, the...
Boys’ Swimming Update 2019-2020
By Justin Li (V) The Pingry boys’ swim team, led by captains Reid McBoyle (VI) and Will Stearns (VI), is looking forward to what they hope will be another dominant season. Following an undefeated 2018-2019 season, training for the upcoming season is in full swing....
Lead Prosecutor in Mueller Investigation Andrew Goldstein ‘92 Emphasizes Truth and Personal Integrity in Hanly Lecture
By Rhea Kapur (V) On Friday, November 8, at the annual John Hanly Lecture on Ethics and Morality, Mr. Andrew Goldstein ‘92 discussed the influence of the Honor Code in his career at Pingry and beyond, and shared some ethical dilemmas he faced where the...
Cast and Crew Puts On Amazing Performances of This Year’s Fall Play Our Town
By Ashleigh Provoost (IV) This year, the Pingry Drama Department performed the play Our Town for its annual fall production, holding performances on November 7th and 9th. Written by Thornton Wilder and directed by Mrs. Stephanie Romankow, the play...
Freshman Art Classes Take on the MoMA
By Mirika Jambudi (III) On Thursday, November 14th, ninth-graders in Art Fundamentals and various other classes visited the Museum of Modern Art for their annual art trip into New York City. They visited many of the museum’s new exhibitions, including,...
Winter Festival Pleases the Crowd
By Kyra Li (III) and Anjola Olawoye (III) As the annual Winter Festival approaches, Pingry students are preparing for their performance for family and friends on December 12. The day before, many ensembles, including chorus, band, orchestra, and handbells, will be...
Art History Students Connect the Classroom to Real-Life in the Met
By Vicky Gu (VI) On Monday, November 18, the AP Art History class, along with Mr. Nigel Paton and Ms. Paula Fisher, took their annual trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Before the trip, students studied the art of people from Africa,...
Broadening Young Artistic Perspectives at the Chelsea Galleries
By Carson Shilts (V) On October 18, over one hundred students filed into buses and rode to Chelsea, New York. There, with bagels in their hands and earbuds in their ears, students in photography, drawing and painting, and portfolio classes discovered...
Freedom to Choose
By Brynn Weisholtz (VI) At Pingry, a student’s academic coursework is primarily determined by the administration and follows a fairly regimented path. There is limited flexibility for a student to “choose” any portion of his or her schedule in the early...
ShopWrong: An Argument Against Arguing the Negative
By Noah Bergam (V) When I was a little kid, I got angry when I heard my name. Noah. I heard the word ‘No.’ Somehow that just pushed me over the edge. My older siblings, realizing my dislike, would further taunt me by calling ShopRite ShopWrong. I...
Club Spotlight: Quiz Bowl Team
By Caleb Park (III) As I walked into the room, pencil in hand, I felt a rush of adrenaline and perhaps a bit of anxiety. It might have been the moderator’s intense stare, or the energy of my teammates, but pure excitement coursed through my veins. I knew that...
Students Serve the Community on Rufus Gunther Day
By Zoe Wang (IV) This year’s annual Rufus Gunther Day, held on October 25, was a resounding success. Following the annual tradition, more than a thousand members of the Pingry community, including 600 Upper School students, 270 middle schoolers, and 100...
Varsity Soccer Teams Close Out Successful Seasons
By Dean Koenig (V) The boys’ and girls’ varsity soccer teams both had unforgettable seasons this fall, adding to the historical success of both programs. The girls, coached by Head Coach Lauren Molinaro, topped off their great season by clinching the...
HiRT Group Explores Art and Afrofuturism: An Intrinsic Duo
By Sydney Stovall (V) On November 5th, a handful of students and faculty embarked on a trip to New York City to observe and discuss art exhibits that explored themes relating to Afrofuturism as part of their Humanities Independent Research Team (HIRT)....
Pingry Discusses Socioeconomic Diversity at Widening the Lens Conference
By Zara Jacob (V) Each year, The Far Brook School hosts the Widening the Lens Conference, a space for independent schools in New Jersey to come together and discuss diversity and inclusion. Each school is expected to send one or two representatives from different...
Triumphing Over Tribulation
By Martine Bigos (IV) On October 21st, Pingry’s Middle and Upper School students attended an assembly where guest speaker Sean Swarmer shared his inspiring life journey. Sean has survived cancer twice and is the first cancer survivor to climb the...
Students Visit the Capital to Participate in Model Congress
By Brooke Pan (V) The weekend before Thanksgiving Break, Pingry students embarked on a trip to the nation’s capital to participate in the Princeton Model Congress. At ten o’clock, the bus left the Pingry campus to start its journey to the prestigious...
Pingry Performs at Columbia University’s Annual Fall Taiko Festival
By Martine Bigos (IV) On Sunday, November 10, Pingry Taiko Drumming attended Columbia University’s Fall Taiko Festival in Manhattan. The drummers performed “Dokokara” and “Matsuri” and they enjoyed the performances of many talented groups, including...
Sickness Spreads through Pingry like Never Before
By Samuel Wexler (IV) On Friday, November 8, students at the Basking Ridge campus refreshed their emails to find that the school day was cut short due to a stomach bug spreading throughout the school community. After being dismissed from their classes, confused...