The Pingry Record - June 2019

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Volume CXLIV, Number IV

June 3, 2019

The Pingry School, Basking Ridge, New Jersey

COMMENCEMENT 2019

Making Memories at Home and Afar:

Seniors Embark on ISPs week in America doing research before traveling to northern Thailand and Bangkok. They learned traditions like dancing and kickboxing, and worked on a jewelry-making After completing their nonprofit. classes in early May, 139 As a second-generation seniors pursued IndeJamaican-American, pendent Senior Projects Nava Levene-Harvell in(ISPs). These projects terviewed 16-18 year old ranged from translating a students of her generagrandfather’s autobiogra- tion in three major cities: phy about the Korean War Johannesburg, London, to studying the effects of and the New York City climate change on beach metropolitan area. She betowns, allowing seniors lieves that although lots of to explore their interests attention has been given in the final months of their to the opinions of milhigh school careers. We lennials, Generation Z’s break down the projects views have been largely by their general field of ignored. interest. Inspired by their Intro to Arabic class, Ally Travel and Cultural Lima and Sophia Smith Exchange tutored and interacted Nicole Kloss and with refugee organizaLily Rockoff traveled tions in New York City to Thailand to immerse and Patterson, New Jersey themselves in the culture to learn more about Midand learn to read and dle Eastern culture. They write the native language. also interviewed Syrian They spent their first immigrants, both within

By NOAH BERGAM (IV), BRYNN WEISHOLTZ (V), EVA SCHILLER (IV), MEGHAN DURKIN (IV), VICKY GU (V), ANEESH KARUPPUR (IV), BROOKE PAN (IV), FELICIA HO (VI), MARTHA LEWAND (V), JUSTIN LI (IV)

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and outside the Pingry community, to understand their experiences of immigrating to the United States, how American culture might be different from Middle Eastern culture, and how American perspectives on Middle Eastern immigrants might have changed after 9/11. Lucas Vazquez and Jack Lyons researched, planned for, and hiked El Camino de Santiago, one of the oldest pilgrimages in Europe. Though the endeavor had been strictly for Catholics for much of its 1200-year history, El Camino has since evolved to be a more secular trail. Lucas and Jack explored this change through vlogs and interviews of hostel owners and other travellers. Allie Matthias visited museums in Italy and the east coast of the United States to examine how visual art is considered “genius”. Her podcast includes comparisons be-

tween artists of similar art movements, analyzing the opportunities they were given, and how some may have been more successful within their lives than others. Music, Theatre, and Literature Lydia Gargano, Nick Grimaldi, and Isabel DeVito casted, blocked scenes, and rehearsed their own play. Using their own experiences from participating in Pingry musicals, they were curious about how some of the technical aspects of directing a production and building sets would manifest in the real world. They had to plan their own meeting times to utilize time spent with cast members as efficiently as possible, and performed in Pingry’s Attic Theater. Furthering the experiences they had in their first semester creative writing class, Nick Robinson, Elliott LaGorce, and Kyle Aanstoots

wrote together in Warren Library in New Jersey. Because they were able to immediately bounce ideas off of each other in their process, they worked efficiently to compile their stories and create a book with a cover and illustrations. Curious about the daily experiences of professional fiction-writers, Paige Maultsby dedicated her time to writing and reading short stories. Her stories are centered around girlhood and experiences of being a young adult in the 21st century. Her visits to Summit Free Public Library helped her read other short stories to benefit her own writing. Breaking the stereotype of boring operas and art songs, Kristine Fu sang and created a comic for Mozart and Gabriele von Baumberg’s “Als Luise die Briefe ihres ungetreuen Liebhabers verbrannte.” She designed

the main character and each frame for the comic, featured in her YouTube video. Applying his experience from playing the piano, various saxophones, guitar, and various other musical instruments, Jason Bisgay learned to play the Pingry School’s organ. To further push his musical abilities, not only will he learn an organ piece, but he will also play as the lead member of Lydia Gargano, Nick Grimaldi, and Isabel DeVito’s pit band for their musical. Evan Taylor pursued his passion for making various types of electronic music, including house music, dubstep, and bass music. Using virtual synths, a field microphone, and a small drum machine, he was able to concentrate on only making music with an uninterrupted workflow. Continued on Page 17

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