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Volume CXXXVIII, Number 5
JUNE 10, 2012
The Pingry School, Martinsville, New Jersey
COMMENCEMENT 2012
Dr. Richardson, Beloved School
Counselor, Retires After 43 Years
seven years of hard work. He
then began teaching a psychology
course, before he and colleague
Mrs. Pat Lionetti decided to offer
an AP Psychology class instead.
He has taught that class and remained the school’s psychologist
and counselor throughout the
remainder of his career.
profound difference in people’s
lives, dealing with people who are
struggling,” he said.
After 43 years as a teacher and
Dr. Richardson can also be
coach, Dr. Michael Richardson is
described as an innovator during
retiring at this school year’s end.
his time at Pingry. He founded
Dr. Richardson, or Dr. Rich as he
both the school’s pottery program,
is frequently called, is a man of
which he taught for a few years,
many talents, and over his career
and the girls’ soccer program,
he has held numerous
which he coached as
positions in various acawell. He also, along
demic and athletic fields.
with Mrs. Lionetti,
He has been Head of the
changed the format of
Middle School, advithe Peer Group retreat
sor, history teacher, art
to the overnight trip to
teacher, Track and Field
Bryn Mawr, a model
and Soccer coach, and
that is still used today.
school psychologist and
In addition to recounselor.
styling the retreat,
In the academic field,
Richardson spent a
Dr. Rich began as a hisgreat deal of his eftory teacher, offering
forts assisting with
lessons in a variety of
the Peer Leadership
courses in the discipline,
Program as a whole.
before discovering his
Although he was a
interest in psychology.
member of the faculty
After going back to
group that founded
school to get certified
the program, origias a school psychologist,
nally he was unsure
he began doing testing
“if it would actually
and seeing students for
work or be a good
counseling. Ten years
thing.”
later, he decided to get a
The first Peer
doctorate in clinical psychology. Though getting Dr. Rich and Mrs. Lionetti on the annual Peer Leader retreat, howCourtesy of Mrs. Lionetti ever, assured him that
his doctorate was arduous Group retreat.
the program was worth
— especially because “I
Although he has done evwas working full time at Pingry erything at Pingry from being the effort and was something he
and basically going to grad school Middle School Head to teaching wanted to be involved in. “After
full time while squeezing in an art, his favorite position of all the first retreat I was completely
internship and dissertation,”— he was being a counselor. “You have
was able to get his degree after an opportunity there to make a
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By DAN ABEND (VI)
SENIOR REFLECTIONS
P. 2-5
COLLEGE SUMMARY
P. 6-7
Seniors Pursue Their
Interests During ISP
inspired by McFarland’s
interest in architecture and
by the Drafting classes she
took at Pingry.
rior design. Grace Putman
experimented with different
photography techniques.
Later, Cassidy, Putman, and
Lang took cooking classes
On Monday, May 7, the
Cailee Cassidy com- and worked at the farm at
Class of 2012 embarked on pleted a photography proj- Ninety Acres on the Natirar
Independent Study Proj- ect that focused on specific estate in Far Hills. The final
ects (ISP). Each year,
week of their ISPs,
ISP gives seniors a
the girls researched
chance to pursue their
and prepared recipes
interests and explore
while keeping a blog
the realm outside of
that documented the
Pingry as they prepare
process.
to make the transition
into the adult world.
Liz Jolley, Kyra
ISPs vary from stuTo p o r , R e b e c c a
dent to student, and
Curran, and Maisie
this year was no exLaud pursued their
ception. While some
interests in the culistudents stayed on
nary arts and spent
campus to do their
the first part of their
ISPs, others travelled
ISPs taking cooking
as far as China to purlessons and visiting
sue their interests.
farmers’ markets in
The seniors presented
New York City with
the results of their
a Pingry mother, Mrs.
projects at this year’s
Flora Feitel. Jolley
ISP night on Wednescreated a slideshow
day, June 6.
A Dali-inspired elephant painted by E. that included photographs she took of
Kong during his ISP.
E. Kong (VI)
Arts and Design
the girls’ cooking exbody parts of many
periences and trips to New
Eleni
M c F a r - people and compared them York. For the remainder of
land created four artwork against each other on a her ISP, she photographed
groups consisting of four larger scale. Elise Lang scenery in Peapack-Gladpieces each. Two of the interned with an interior stone, while Laud went on
groups focused on insects designer in Morristown to
a n d t h e o t h e r t w o o n learn about cooking, table
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buildings. The latter was setting, and, of course, inteBy KASIA AXTELL (V),
BEN KAMINOFF (IV), and
VINITA DAVEY (V)
1902 & MAGISTRI AWARDS
P. 9-11
DEPARTING FACULTY
P. 14-15
SPORTS
P. 19-20
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THE PINGRY RECORD
ISP JUNE 10, 2012
Students Set Off On Personal Explorations
Continued From Page 1
to intern in the Development
Office and Topor and Curran
made a cookbook of recipes
they made during ISP.
After years of experience with painting, Stepha n i e S u n a n d F l o re n c e
Ma wanted to dabble in
other art forms. The pair
researched and created
works of photography, print,
wax, charcoal, watercolor,
metal, fabric, paper maché,
and clay.
Sarah Williams, Corey Delaney, and Emily
Damstrom worked at the
Mansion in May Designer
Showcase and Gardens at
Glynallyn Castle in Morristown. Williams also took
a week off to intern with a
Pingry dad at JP Morgan
Chase bank in New York
City.
taught a class lesson for
lake. His video included his the scarves to the AIDS plied them to his project.
Pingry’s Lower Campus’s
Resource Foundation for
own background music.
David Sukhin interned Financial Literacy program
Children. Julia Johnstone
Ned Christensen, who will
be studying at the
Parsons School
of Design this
fall, pursued his
passion for fashion
design by interning
at the Ralph Lauren
Offices in New York
City. He worked in
the Rugby Ralph
L a u r e n Wo m e n ’s
Design Department,
shadowing the
Conceptual Director
for the Design team.
Following years of
c o n s t r u c t i n g w o o d f u rniture, Johnny Roberts and Bryan James built
a full-sized wooden table
from scratch. The pair took
Neil Steiner spent most part in all aspects of the
of his ISP at Pingry pursuing project, including planning,
his passion for sculpting drafting, measuring, cutting,
Cole Jordan and
while incorporating media construction, and editing.
Jose Barrionuevo
like wood and sheet metal.
created and managed a clothing
brand called Big
Brother Apparel.
They made the majority of their deAndrew Hanna and Nolan Sullivan interviewed protestors at the Occupy Wall St. movement in
signs and printed NYC. Here, Hanna records his conversation with a protestor.
Photographed by C. Wang
them on crewnecks,
tank tops, and long sleeve spent the second part of her at UpData, a private equity based on his ISP experience.
shirts. Jordan and Barrion- ISP helping Kennedy, and firm, whose main focus is on
Edward Kong and Matt
uevo also created a website the first part shadowing a technology. The firm’s work
with pictures of students home inspector and learning incorporates all of Sukhin’s Chan interned at JP Mormodeling their clothing. about the techniques used to various interests, including gan Chase to gain a better
understanding of Public
technology and finance.
The boys sold the apparel inspect homes.
Finance. The pair worked
at school and donated all
Yvonne Jeng had an in- with analysts to do financial
Kit Tyson and Kate Leib
proceeds to the John Taylor
learned different printmak- ternship in New York City research as they became
Babbitt Foundation.
ing techniques and then at Leerink Swann, an invest- familiar with 9-to-5 jobs,
Marissa Von Nessi and created prints of their own. ment bank whose primary hour-long twice-daily train
Molly Schulman visited Both girls found styles of focus is healthcare. She rides to and from Penn Staseveral museums, where printmaking that matched shadowed a managing direc- tion, and New York City’s
they focused on Impression- t h e i r i n d i v i d u a l a r t i s t i c tor and learned about differ- work environment.
ist, Renaissance, modern, styles, and by the end of ent transactions from other
Betty Li worked in the
and religious art. The pair their ISP, they had a firm analysts at the company.
strategy department of Tader
researched two of the paint- grasp on the art of printmakSarah Kim shadowed Coal SCM Co., Ltd., a faings they saw on each trip. ing and had completed many
a Pingry contact and his mous coal supply chain in
Von Nessi and Schulman prints of their own.
colleagues at a healthcare Dalian, China. She learned
also kept a detailed blog
Clare Goggins pursued focused investment bank about a strategy system
containing the research they
did and the observations interests in both metalwork- that does public equity deals called Balanced Scorecard,
One day of L. Jolley, R. Curran, M. Laud, and K. Topor’s
they made during their ISP. ing and printmaking during and M & A deals for public which was originally crecooking ISP was devoted to roast chicken.
The blog will be used as a her ISP. Under the instruc- biotech, medical device, and ated to aid the accounting
L. Jolley (VI)
resource for future art his- tion of Pingry teacher Mr. healthcare services compa- department, but is now used
T h r o u g h o u t h i s I S P, h e
Richard Freiwald, Goggins nies. Kim was interested in in the strategy department,
tory students.
Andrew Burchekept a journal that included
created jewelry and prints this alternative side of the too, to plan a staff’s future
sketches and photographs nal worked with a carpenter
goals and work and to meaCameron Edwards and for a display in the main finance world.
of his work in progress. For to learn the many skills Alex Ingrassia studied the hallway at Pingry.
sure one’s performance in a
inspiration, Steiner visited associated with carpentry. evolution of cartoons, startInterested in learning company. After learning all
several museums, galleries, He performed various jobs, ing in the 1960s and ending
Like Goggins, Brad Er- about the basics of invest- about Balanced Scorecards,
all of which involved hands- with modern day cartoons. ickson worked under Mr. ing in the stock market, Li helped plan and write
and sculpture gardens.
on experience and physical They made two visits to the Freiwald and made a vari- Chris Albanese and Mi- some. This, she said, was
After taking Art Portfo- labor.
Museum of Comic & Car- ety of pots and sculptures chael Supron began by the most exciting part of
lio Development, James
toon Art in May, and wrote using different clay-work- reading and studying two her ISP.
Combining his interests a paper on their findings.
Ross experimented with a
ing methods that he had books on the subject. They
variety of ceramic glazes. in photography, fishing,
learned during class with continued by meeting with a
Lucky Luzuriaga spent
He made many pots, bowls, boating, music, and engistockbroker and researching her ISP at Ulmar Insurance
Mariel Kennedy knit Mr. Freiwald.
and vases in an assortment neering, Jason Levine built half a kilometer ’s worth
which markets and stocks to Brokerage Corp. in Brookof colors by mixing different a full-size boat. Levine then of scarves during her ISP.
invest in. After a few weeks, lyn, NY. The first week,
Business/Finance
glazes and positioning the created a video of himself She will donate each of
they learned about day trad- Luzuriaga shadowed an initems differently in the kiln. fishing on his boat in a local
Dan Abend, Andrew ing and buying and selling surance broker and learned
Martin, Taylor Wright, more or less stocks based about the different types of
and Jake Mackoff cre- on the market’s fluctuations. insurance the agency offers
ated their own business
and how they assist cusHoping to further her tomers. Later, she worked
right on campus. The
boys opened an outdoor interests in French, Interna- with customers under the
breakfast venue where tional Affairs, and business, supervision of the broker
they cooked made-to- Caroline Dreyfuss was an she shadowed in addition
order dishes for students intern at the French-Ameri- to helping with paperwork.
a n d f a c u l t y. B e s i d e s can Chamber of Commerce
cooking, Abend, Martin, in New York. She kept a
Arvind Iyengar interned
Wr i g h t , a n d M a c k o ff journal describing her work at Mercury Capital to learn
learned about the busi- in various departments and about the real estate investness and marketing as- her interactions with outside ment world and how mortpects of the food industry groups, including member gages work. Iyengar gained
as they planned and pre- companies.
technical skills by analyzing
pared the business. All
real-life dilemmas and imFreddy Elliot wanted proved his economic awareprofits were donated to
the John Taylor Babbitt to learn what investment ness.
banks do and how they make
Foundation.
money, so he interned at
First, Emily McCormick
Jake Aronwald chose Goldman Sachs in New York planned a Mother ’s Day
to develop a computer for an exciting four weeks. Event at Chelsea Senior
game for his ISP. He Elliot sat at a trading desk Living in Bridgewater. She
learned the fundamentals and listened in on transac- and four volunteers painted
The above painting was created by Stephanie Sun as part of her collection of artwork of programming and ap- tions. He also prepared and the women’s nails there and
depicting deer during ISP.
S. Sun (VI)
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ISP JUNE 10, 2012
17
For Independent Study Projects During May
mostly did office work, but worked as an assistant kinenjoyed being so close to the dergarten teacher at The
Mount Vernon School in
animals every day.
Newark, New Jersey. While
Dan Keller, Dylan Key, there, she played with the
and Justin Shangold or- students, helped them furganized a charity 5-on-5 ther their language skills,
soccer tournament at Pin- and read to them.
g r y. P a r t i c i p a n t s i n t h e
Film and Photography
tournament included high
school students, faculty, and
Andrew Gorelick, who
friends from other schools.
Keller, Key, and Shangold i s i n t e r e s t e d i n a c t i n g ,
Communications/Mar- put together a fun event for and Kevin Sampaio, interthe Pingry community and ested in directing, spent their
keting
donated all the proceeds to ISP studying films together.
presented them with roses as
Mother’s Day gifts. Next,
McCormick spent a week at
JP Morgan Chase and visited several different groups
within the bank. Finally, she
spent two weeks working
at Crowley’s Cupcakes in
Madison, where she learned
about running a business
and baking, frosting, and
decorating cupcakes.
developing a portfolio of range of departments.
photography from around
New York City.
Language/Culture
J o h n n y P f l i e g e r f u rther explored his interest
in photography through a
variety of projects. He used
alternative processes of
picture taking and printing
and explored their different
usages, benefits, and differences.
Hoping for a chance to
learn more about her ancestral country, Armenia, while
pursuing her interest in
International Affairs, Christina Najarian interned directly under the Armenian
Ambassador to the United
States, Garen Nazarian, at
the Armenian Embassy in
New York City.
After reading Herman
Hesse’s “Siddhartha,” Tanner McMahon decided to
study Buddhism and experiment with a variety of
Buddhist practices. He read
an assortment of Buddhist
texts, meditated twice a day,
and explored many Buddhist
Medicine
art forms including music,
S e r g i o G o m e z a n d photography, and poetry.
Thomas O’Reilly studied
Combining her passions
the evolution of
Hoping to learn more for art and science, Caryn
humor by tracing about their home state, Ki- H a v o l u n t e e r e d a t t h e
its course over the ran Bhatt and Alak Mehta Healing Arts program at
c e n t u r i e s . F i r s t , visited two to three histori- Atlantic Health Overlook
they read Part One cal or nature sites per week Hospital in Summit. The
o f A r t h u r K o e s - throughout New Jersey. program implements music
tler’s “The Act of The boys also wrote journal and art in patients’ recoveries.
Creation” and used entries, essays, poems, and After interviewing patients,
it as a foundation stories about their travels Ha created a documentary
f o r t h e i r e x p l o - and experiences.
comparing the effectiveness
ration of humor.
of art and music therapy
Then, they watched
To learn Brazilian Portu- to traditional medicinal
and analyzed six- guese by immersing himself treatments.
t e e n c o m e d i e s completely in the language
spanning from the and Brazilian culture, RiInterested in public
early 20 th centu- cardo Vollbrechthausen health, Cecilia Uche worked
ry to more recent lived in São Paulo, Brazil, at the Infection Prevention
for two weeks. While there, and Control Department at
times.
in addition to taking lessons St. Barnabas Hospital in
in Portuguese, he studied Livingston. The department
Emerging Market Micro- handles statistics that are
Journalism
economics at the Funda- collected by the hospital,
Cara Solina, who will attend NYU Tisch to study photography in the Fall, took photos of people
ção Getulio Vargas, one of and educates staff about
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and places around New York City for her ISP.
C. Solina (VI)
tel shadowed Mrs. Brazil’s most prestigious infection prevention by
Hannah Ajmani interned the charity of the winning To understand what
placing emphasis on hand
Jane Sarkin O’Connor for universities.
makes a film good or bad, three days at the Vanity Fair
at Facebook’s New York of- team’s choice.
washing, conducting tracer
the pair watched two movies offices in Midtown Manhatfice, where she learned how
rounds, and keeping patients
Law/Politics
a day, one known as a clas- tan, where she learned about
Education
the social networking site
safe.
sic of cinema and the other the behind-the-scenes asoperates. Ajmani’s goal was
Marisa Werner and KC
R e b e c c a C u r r a n i n - notorious for being awful. pects of producing a maga- E b o h i n t e r n e d a t t h e
to figure out how Facebook
Hoping to explore the
can help communities grow, terned at the Renaissance They also wrote, filmed, and zine. She then interned c o r p o r a t e l a w f i r m medical field and decide
which she achieved through Church, where she led dis- edited a documentary about at The Alliance for Youth Wo l l m u t h , M a h e r, a n d whether becoming a doctor
identifying and studying cussion groups intended Pingry’s history.
Artists & Writers, a branch Deutsch, LLP, which handles could be in his future, Convarious groups of Facebook to get middle school-aged
of Scholastic, in SoHo, and many different types of nor McLaughlin interned
K a t a r i n a U n d e r - obtained hands-on experi- corporate transactions. They at a family medical practice
users and non-users who students thinking about the
could benefit from social role that faith plays in their w o o d v i s i t e d a n d ence planning events and worked with Pingry parent run by a Pingry parent, Dr.
lives. Curran also planned photographed the Grand learning about the publish- Mr. David H. Wollmuth, a Mitchell Mayer, in Woodnetworking.
high school lessons and Canyon and various national ing industry and non-profit prominent attorney and a bridge, NJ. McLaughlin
R e b e c c a Wy n n e a n d created topics for discus- parks in Arizona and Utah. organizations.
partner in the firm, from kept a journal detailing his
Adrienne Sozansky in- sion in high school breakout All of her images focused on
whom they learned about experiences shadowing Dr.
terned at David Ellis Events groups, which are a more nature and landscapes.
Sarah Park pursued her the areas of private equity, Mayer.
in Cedar Knolls, NJ. The mature, biblically focused
passion for photography and bond indentures corporate
A f t e r t a k i n g t h e f i l m fashion as a photo intern at governance and mergers,
girls spent most of their version of the middle school
Pursuing her love for
ISPs doing paper work in the discussion groups. She also class at Pingry, Anders Elle Magazine in New York and acquisitions.
animals and horses in parcompany’s office, but they created a cookbook with fel- Ve l i s c h e k a n d K e v i n under Pingry alum StephaFischer viewed many Amer- nie Swanicke. At Elle, Park
occasionally got to help out low senior Kyra Topor.
ican films that highlighted had the chance to attend
with food preparations and
H a r r y S k i n n e r , w h o distinct filmmaking tech- photoshoots in addition to
decorations.
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has considered becoming a niques in a variety of genres. working in the office. She
Stuart O’Keeffe interned teacher after college, was a The pair also created four kept a daily blog of her
at Albing International Mar- teacher’s aide to fifth grade “sweded movies” that rec- experiences at Elle, postketing in Flemington, where Language Arts teachers Dr. reated their favorite films. ing photos and sharing her
he worked on market re- Pearlman and occasionally
schedule and her thoughts.
Soon-to-be New York
search for a company called Mrs. Alford at the Lower
Bambooee. O’Keefe helped School campus. At the end University student Cara
Andrew Hanna and Nomarket one of the com- of his ISP, Skinner reflected Solina captured New York lan Sullivan interviewed
pany’s products, reusable on his time as a teacher’s City’s vibe by taking pho- and surveyed members of
tos of people and architec- t h e O c c u p y Wa l l S t r e e t
paper towel made from bam- assistant in a journal.
ture in neighborhoods like movement in order to fully
boo, by conducting research
Building upon their time Chinatown, Little Italy, understand the movement’s
on the recycling and paper
as peer leaders, Ben Muller Brooklyn, and Midtown. cultural and political impact
industries.
and Alex Castle volunteered Solina hand developed the on both the present and the
at St. Justine’s Preschool photos in Pingry’s dark future. They also captured
Community Service
in Newark. They worked room. Jonathan Freinberg videos and photographs
Ashley Hough, Annie closely with students in all spent the first part of his of the protesters to gain a
Vreeland, Matt Lipper, subjects and applied their ISP photographing all of the visual understanding of the
and Will Kelly organized listening and problem solv- teachers he has had at Pin- movement’s implications.
the 6th Annual Walk with ing skills on a daily basis. gry. Then, he joined Solina
in photographing Manhattan
Heart, an annual walk-aEmilie Moy met with
Pingry “Lifer” Kaitlin neighborhoods.
thon that benefits the John
and observed the editors at
Taylor Babbitt Foundation, Ulker worked with kinderseveral Hearst publications
Madeline Higgins took and departments, includw h i c h i s d e d i c a t e d t o garten students at the Lower
raising awareness about and Campus. She also interned an introductory course at ing Good Housekeeping,
preventing sudden cardiac at Vensette, under founder the Photomanhattan Photog- the Good Housekeeping
and Pingry alum Lauren raphy School in New York Research Institute, Sevendeath.
Remington-Platt. Vensette City. Higgins learned about teen, Hearst Digital, and O,
Because they have always is a fashion and beauty camera settings, focus con- The Oprah Magazine. She
loved animals, Emma No- company in New York City. trol, exposure control, light- learned about the creation
ing, photo-composition, of both the print and digital
sofsky and Margot MarInterested in being an and portraiture and project editions of major national
chese chose to do their ISP
at St. Hubert’s Animal Shel- elementary school teacher development. Later, she put magazines, from story pitchter in Madison. The girls in the future, Noor Khan these new skills to use by es to the editing process, in a Jonathan Freinberg photographed members of the faculty
for his ISP.
J. Freinberg (VI)
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Continued From Page 17
Music
Connie Wang prepared
a senior piano recital, of
roughly forty-five minutes
in length, and created a
CD recording of the pieces
she will perform at her recital. Hoping to continue her
piano performance career
after high school, she will
be polishing pieces she has
Miscellaneous
played before in addition to
Mael Corboz and Lee studying new pieces that she
Barker took five overnight will perfect in college.
hikes on the New Jersey’s
ticular, Alice Symington
shadowed an equine veterinarian to gain practical
experience in veterinary
medicine, a field she is considering studying in college
in order to one day work as
a veterinarian herself.
After finding out that recording companies or signed
artists will only consider
hiring a songwriter if he
or she has written at least
twenty lyric sheets, Tori
Campbell, who had written
four full songs before her
ISP, set out to write sixteen
more for a full portfolio.
Campbell also spent four
days learning basic chords
on the piano and two days
co-writing a song with her
brother, Ryan.
Science
Will Saulnier interned at the
Liberty Science
C e n t e r i n J e rsey City. Along
with supervising
many exhibits,
Saulnier worked
with members
of the staff to
ensure that all
of the almost
2000 students
who came to the
center each day
had a wonderful
experience.
through fitness and conditioning routines.
Ben Ballintyn has always
wished he could fly, so as
soon as he turned eighteen,
he began learning how to
skydive. He trained with
Freefall Adventures in Williamstown, NJ, and took a
course called the “Advance
Freefall Program.” After
Ballintyn performed all
twenty-five jumps required
for an “A” license, he became a certified skydiver.
Jamie Ogden helped
Coach Shilts transfer last
year’s game tapes onto a
website for football coaches
and players. Then, he helped
the team’s coaches to analyze the tapes to help them
organize strategies for next
year.
Pingry Varsity Golf Captains Logan McGowan and
Jacob Green enhanced their
golfing skills by discovering
and playing on a variety of
golf courses across the state.
They also incorporated their
love for writing into the
project by reviewing each
Sarah Mey- course.
ers worked in
Patrick Lackey interned
a Rutgers University research at Cutting Edge Ice Acadlab, where she emy in Elmwood Park, NJ.
l e a r n e d a b o u t Lackey accomplished his
This carrot cake, recipe via Jonathan Freinberg, was among the recipes Nanotechnology two main goals: working ditested by Margaret Morash and Christine Kumar during their ISP.
Courtesy of M. Morash and worked on rectly with kids and learning
a nanostar syn- about the business aspect of
Pursuing
part of the Appalachian Trail.
thesis.
When
she had time his favorite sport, hockey.
The pair researched hiking her love for music, Hanto
spare,
Meyers
came back When he wasn’t working as
s a f e t y a n d f a m i l i a r i z e d nah Kirmser completed a
to
Pingry
to
work
on metal- a skating trainer or hockey
themselves with common two-part project, the first
flora and fauna. Throughout phase of which she spent working. She experimented coach, Lackey helped orgatheir ISP, Corboz and Barker practicing and recording with different patinas for nize the calendar of daily
kept journals recording their three songs of different metal like Copper, giving lessons that the facility will
procedures, experiences, genres. The second phase her the opportunity to incor- offer this summer.
and encounters. The boys she spent interning at Sony porate chemistry into the art
Jillian Ward worked at
also read ”Walden,” “Walk- Music Entertainment in component of her ISP.
the
Powerflow Yoga stuing,” and “On the Road” and New York City, where she
dio
in
Chatham, where she
Brian
Yan,
Silas
Taylor,
wrote essays relating each l e a r n e d m o r e a b o u t t h e
was
able
to clear her mind,
Jason
Ring,
and
Ed
Xiao,
novel to their experiences marketing aspect of the
become
more
focused, and
all
of
whom
are
interested
music industry, which she
with nature.
hopes she will eventually go in pursuing a math, science, gain the ability to connect
or engineering degree in with herself. She also creFor the first part of his into after college.
college, worked together to ated a yoga postures book,
IS P, Josh Kin g w orked
Continuing his interest build a go-kart completely allowing her to research and
at Pingry and helped Mr.
Burkhart with a project in experimenting with the from scratch. By doing so, become comfortable with a
for the Computer Science world of songwriting and they gained experience in variety of yoga poses.
classes. Afterwards, King musical production, Alex the field of applied science.
Nick Branchina rewent to Anson, ME, where Mango wrote, sang, and
searched
concussions and
Doug
Ober
spent
his
he helped his friends, who produced his own dance/pop
head
trauma.
He also parISP
helping
Pingry
teacher
were missionaries in North- album of 10-15 songs using
ern Kenya for 20 years and the software GarageBand. Mr. David Maxwell with a ticipated in several workstarted a missionary called He also produced and sold project that involved trans- outs specifically designed
Cutting Truth in Maine af- CD recordings of his tracks, forming Arabidopsis with a to reduce the risk of conter moving back to the US. the proceeds of which went fungal virus so that the plant cussions by strengthenKing helped them to clear t o t h e M o u n t P l e a s a n t would be resistant to the ing the neck, spine, and
fungus when exposed to it. shoulders. Some of these
land and build a house for Animal Shelter.
workouts took place at
a new spiritual ministry
Pingry’s fitness center
Sports/Fitness
Having been a musician
project.
and others at the Extra
all his life, Nick Canavan
Edge Academy in Pine
Longtime
football
fan
Emily Haselton is an gathered bamboo, dry bamEMT, so she spent the first boo, and wood to build a Michaela Ennis helped Brook, NJ.
two weeks of her ISP on call flute, saxophone, and trum- Mr. Shilts analyze Pingry
Theater
to respond to medical emer- pet. Then, he composed and football game tapes. First,
gencies with the Bernards- recorded music to play with she created an Excel spreadTo understand what
ville Fire Department’s First the instruments he created. sheet containing all of the
g
o
es on behind-thedata
from
the
games,
and
Aid Squad. Then, she travs
c
e
nes of a theater
later,
she
produced
a
full
Ryan Campbell, who has
elled to North Carolina to
p
r
o
duction, Madi
written
analysis
of
the
data
shadow Mr. Matthew Mor- written numerous songs in
Ta
y
lor and Justen
she
collected.
rissey, a computer playback his free time over the last
Haynes interned
at the
five years, wrote and resupervisor on movie sets.
Talented soccer player Paper Mill Playhouse in
corded full-length, fully orM a g g i e M o r a s h a n d chestrated songs in the form Shayna Blackwood trained Millburn. In addition to
Christine Kumar worked of an extended play during m a l e a n d f e m a l e h i g h editing scripts for next
i n t h e l a b o f a m e d i c a l his ISP. Campbell honed his school-aged players, par- season’s shows, the pair
devices company called songwriting skills in addi- ticularly those of Somerville helped out backstage
TYRX. They also collected tion to learning more about High School, in the sport. during Press Day, Tech
recipes from Pingry students the recording, orchestrating, She exposed her players to Week, and performances
and faculty and compiled and marketing aspects of the more advanced aspects of of “Once on this Island.”
soccer little by little while
them into a comprehensive music industry.
Sam Gelman directed
getting her players in shape
Pingry cookbook.
Cailee Cassidy, Grace Putman, and Elise Lang volunteered
on the farm at Natirar. Here, Cassidy holds a baby lamb.
a play called “I Hate Hamlet,” which was shown at
Pingry on May 23, 24, and
25. Gelman casted and directed the play in addition
to managing the set and the
technical aspects of the production. Eleanor Johnson
helped design and build the
show’s set. The experience
strengthened her problemsolving skills, taught her to
manage a budget, and gave
her the opportunity to hone
her creative abilities and her
leadership skills. Coached
by a Pingry mother, Johnson
also spent time recording a
demo in New York City.
Writing
Molly Greninger completed a novel she began last
spring in Creative Writing
entitled “Fireworks,” which
is written in Southern dialect from the points of view
of four teenage boys living
in Texas. The novel revolves
around the relationships
that the boys have with
each other, their families,
and society, and deals with
issues such as abuse, love,
and coming of age.
Courtesy of C. Cassidy
With Ms. Davlin as his
mentor, Dylan Sun pursued
his passion for creative writing and worked on finishing
a novel that he started writing last year. In addition,
he worked on a few shorter
pieces on the side.
After visiting 42 schools
during her college search,
Caroline Zee decided to
write a book called “The
College Process: A to Zee.”
Zee wrote from her own
experience in addition to
interviewing several of Pingry’s college counselors,
independent college counselors, college admissions
officers, parents, and high
school juniors and seniors
about their takes on the process. Zee’s book details how
to begin the college search
process, forming a list of
potential schools, visiting
colleges, interviewing, writing essays, finding the best
books to guide soon-to-be
college students through the
process of applying, dealing
with parents, and, finally, a
section listing the colleges
with the best website, the
best food, etc.