Xu Joins the Language Department
Maile Winterbottom (V) The Pingry community welcomes Ms. Yifan Xu this fall as a teacher of Middle and Upper School Chinese. She will be teaching levels 1A, 1B, and Chinese 2 in the Upper School. She has two years of prior teaching experience before coming to Pingry,...
Ross Looks to Get Involved as an English Teacher
Brian Li (IV) Mrs. Kelly Ross is welcomed by the Pingry community this fall as she joins the Upper School English Department. She is teaching English 9, Creative Writing, and Shakespeare. Mrs. Ross received her Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Bucknell...
2019 Fall Awards Assembly Celebrates Previous Year
By Lauren Taylor (VI) On Friday, September 20, the Upper School gathered in Hauser Auditorium to celebrate students who displayed exceptional academic effort and achievement in the 2018-2019 school year. The ceremony began by recognizing the Form VI students who...
Girls’ Tennis Update 2019-2020
Ashana Makhija (VI) This year, the varsity girls’ tennis team has maintained a strong performance throughout the season. After losing only one match, they are ranked fifth in the state, up from tenth at the beginning of the season. At the end of September, the team...
Merit Diplomacy and Pingry’s Economy of Accolades
Noah Bergam (V) In the spring of last year, some friends and I became obsessed with an online game called Diplomacy. In this wonderfully irritating game, each player owns a certain pre-WWI European country, and, move by move, they try to maximize their...
A Summer of Science and Spanish
Anjali Kapoor (VI) This summer, I was able to learn about two of my favorite subjects outside of the classroom. I interned at an orthopedics lab where I was exposed to a whole new side of biology research, and I traveled to Spain and Cancun to immerse myself in...
Freshmen Begin their School Year with a Trip to Bryn Mawr
Mirika Jambudi (III) Bright and early on August 28th, just a few days before the start of the school year, Pingry welcomed its newest class of freshmen on campus for the longstanding tradition of the peer leadership retreat. Alongside their senior peer group leaders,...
The Teacher-Student Communication: A Divided Exchange
Justin Li (V) Traditionally, the process of education has been regarded as the unreciprocated transfer of information to a student, who is treated as an empty container to be filled. Paulo Freire, a 20th-century philosopher on pedagogy, refers to this antiquated model...
Dress Codes in the Sky
Brynn Weisholtz (VI) As I boarded the plane and walked to my seat, I paid little attention to the people surrounding me––I was unaware of who they were, how they looked, and where they were going. I placed my carry-on bag in the compartment above my head, took my...
E-ddicted: Using Tech Innovation to Combat Our Public Health Crisis
Emma Huang (V) For six weeks this summer, I had the opportunity to work in Cooper Union’s Summer STEM Makerspace Program. Filled with 3-D printers, plasma laser cutters, and soldering and circuit stations, the Makerspace was an innovator’s dream – a place where I...
Looking Past the Surface
Helen Liu (V) The speaker at the podium––let’s call him A––gave his speech, charged with emotion. I never knew he could write like this, I thought, as I clapped along with my friends at the particularly touching parts. I didn’t know A that well—he was in a separate...
Winterbottom Reaches New Heights in Iceland
Maile Winterbottom (V) In the midst of some last-minute scrambling to put my summer plans together last April, I quickly scrolled through possible programs and trips I could attend. I came across a two week trip to Iceland held by Overland Summers, a program that...
Wong on Hong Kong: A Battle for Freedom
Andrew Wong (IV) As my freshman year approached its finale of final exams, I looked forward to a summer of rest and relaxation. Half a world away in Hong Kong, students were also busy preparing for their exams and their summer. Unlike me, though, they were...
Seniors Relax in Pocono Retreat
Martha Lewand (VI) A week before school began, on September 3rd and 4th, Form VI students traveled to the Pocono Valley Resort in Reeders, Pennsylvania, for their senior retreat. The seniors spent the trip participating in several activities, including a...
Remembering D-Day
Ava Kotsen (V) June 6, 2019 was a lot of things. For many students and faculty at Pingry, it marked the final day of the school year, and the beginning of summer. It also marked the 75th anniversary of the Allied Powers’ Normandy invasion and the battle that...
The Sophomores Visit NYC
Katherine Xie (IV) On Wednesday, September 4, the class of 2022 explored the exhibits of New York City’s Museum of Natural History and went to see the award-winning “To Kill a Mockingbird” on Broadway. The day began in the school cafeteria where students caught...
Head of School Mr. Matt Levinson Emphasizes Community and the Student Experience
Eva Schiller (V), Vicky Gu (VI), Meghan Durkin (V) Though the Pingry community has known his name for almost a year now, Mr. Matt Levinson has just begun his first academic year as our new Head of School. Following a five-month search and a unanimous vote from the...
Kapur’s Fall Dive into Abbey Road and Elton John’s Masterpieces
Rhea Kapur (V) Even though I dislike the mainstream, formulaic pop that constantly fills Spotify’s “Today’s Top Hits” Playlist, I keep an eye on the charts. Billboard Hot 100? The top 200 albums? Rolling Stone’s Top 100? iTunes Top 100? You name it. Imagine my...
The Incredible Middle School Trips
Alex Wong (I) From September 25th to 27th, Middle School students embarked on trips to destinations ranging from the nation’s capital to right here in New Jersey. In the process, students were able to get a glimpse into what they will learn this year Grade six...
Form V Floats into the School Year
Dean Koenig (V) The Form V class spent their opening to the school year at the Lehigh River to go whitewater rafting. Since the junior class traveled to Philadelphia in previous years for their back-to-school trips, this trip was a surprise to students. The grade was...
Football Update 2019-2020
Burke Pagano (VI) The boys’ varsity football team has started off their season with a relatively strong record. The team has been working hard since the start of preseason in early August under the leadership of Head Coach Chris Shilts. Captains James Wang (VI),...
Pingry Installs Another Gender Neutral Restroom on Campus
Ashleigh Provoost (IV) Over the summer, Pingry installed a gender neutral restroom in the athletics wing. This was a big step forward for Pingry and its continued advocacy for a more inclusive school community; this engagement has provided a bathroom that allows...
Karuppur Tackles the Technology Tea
Aneesh Karuppur (V) Some interesting things transpired in the tech world over the summer, and even more during the start of the school year. Perhaps the most talked-about issue was the release of Apple’s new products in September, the most buzzy of which is the...
Kaplan reviews Spider-Man: Far From Home
Alex Kaplan (V) WARNING: This article contains spoilers for Avengers: Endgame and Spider-Man: Far From Home. If you don’t want to read spoilers, don’t read on. This past July, I saw the release of the second Spider-Man film from the Marvel Cinematic...
Mr. Schroedter Shares His Passion For Language
Josie Alston (V) This fall, Pingry welcomed Mr. Kevin Schroedter to the Middle and Upper School Language Departments. Mr. Schroedter teaches French 2 in the Middle and Upper School, along with Spanish 2 and French 5 in the Upper School. He is the assistant coach for...