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Pingry Students Create Stem-In-Place
After witnessing the far-reaching and debilitating effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on our communities, a group of Pingry students, public school students, and I looked on anxiously, wondering if anything could be done to help alleviate this dire situation. With...
Freshman Retreat Kicks Off New School Year
By Meghan Durkin (VI) This year's freshman retreat, held on Thursday, September 3, kicked off an unprecedented school year. Instead of visiting Bryn Mawr Mountain Retreat as originally planned, this year's retreat was held at Pingry to respect coronavirus guidelines....
Pingry Students Create Care-Full
By Andrew Wong (V) This past May, with the COVID-19 pandemic still raging, Noah Bergam (VI), Kristin Osika (V), Eva Schiller (VI), and myself formed an organization called Care-Full to distribute PPE to underserved communities around New Jersey. With the new health...
Parting Pictures of Jake Ross: A Rhetorical Analysis
By Noah Bergam (V), Justin Li (V), and Aneesh Karuppur (V) June 18, 2020 On the evening of June 11, the Pingry community received an email from Head of School Matt Levinson and the Board of Trustees confirming that Mr. Jake Ross was fired from The...
Model Congress Attends Harvard Conference
By Mirika Jambudi (III) On February 20th, Pingry students travelled to Boston, Massachusetts to participate in the Harvard Model Congress (HMC) held at the Boston Sheraton Hotel. HMC, the largest congressional simulation in the world, provides students...
Pingry’s Annual Faculty Art Exhibition
By Martine Bigos (IV) The annual Art Faculty Exhibition was on display in the Hostetter Gallery through January 31. The exhibition featured the work of many Pingry studio art teachers, including Ms. Xiomara Babilonia, Ms. Melody Boone, Mr. Miles Boyd, Mr. Russell...
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...
Jasinski Rejoins the German Department
Callie Mahoney (V) Herr Igor Jasinski is back! This year, he will be teaching a variety of both Upper and Middle School courses: German I, German III and IV for high schoolers, and German IA for the sixth graders. He is also a faculty advisor of the Polyglot magazine,...
The Math Department Welcomes Mr. Yong
Brooke Pan (V) The Upper School Mathematics Department welcomes Mr. Zhaojun Yong, who will be teaching both Honors Geometry and Advanced Algebra and Geometry. Besides teaching, he will also be coaching the boys’ freshman basketball team and advising a club in the...
Ms. Guadalupe Nunez joins Pingry as Spanish Teacher
Monica Chan (V) With a passion for teaching and love for the Spanish language and culture, Ms.Guadalupe Nunez receives a warm Pingry community welcome. This fall, Señora Nunez joined Pingry as a Middle School Spanish teacher and Form I advisor. In addition, she will...
Welcome to the History Department, Mr. Toor!
Andrew Wong (IV) This year, the Upper School History Department welcomes Mr. Saad Toor, who will be teaching three sections of World History 9 and one section of World History 10. Mr. Toor recently completed his M.Sc. in South Asian Studies at Oxford University in...
History Department Welcomes Dr. Wakefield
Eva Schiller (V) As the new school year begins, Pingry is extremely fortunate to welcome Dr. Zachary Wakefield to the History Department. He attended Juniata College, where he earned a Bachelor’s Degree in history. He then went on to earn his M.A. and Ph.D at Auburn...
The Mandarin Department Welcomes Michael Wang
Zoe Wang (IV) This fall, the Pingry community welcomed Mr. Michael Wang, who teaches Chinese 1, two sections of Chinese 3, and Chinese 6. In addition to teaching, Mr. Wang chaperones the Middle School Homework Club. Mr. Wang graduated with a bachelor’s degree...
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...
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,...
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...