1998 ANDREW GRUEL, Co-Founder and Executive Chef of the California-based seafood chain Slapfish, was named to “The Power List 2017,” published by Nation’s Restaurant News (NRN)—its fourth annual list of the most powerful people in the food service industry. Slapfish won NRN’s MenuMasters Trendsetter Award in 2016 for its efforts to make sustainable seafood affordable.
where I concentrate my practice in a variety of areas including insurance services, general liability, premises liability, liquor liability, negligent security, construction site accidents, construction defect, and wrongful death.”
2003 Cameron McLean, Marshall McLean, Jr., and new arrival Carter McLean.
KIM (BARBIERI) MCLEAN and MARSHALL MCLEAN welcomed Carter Penelope McLean, who weighed 7 pounds, 3 ounces. Carter is already well-loved by members of the Pingry community, with Lauren (Gruel) Diemar ’96 and Thomas Diemar ’96 serving as godparents along with Andrew Leonard ’98!
2000 REBECCA MOZO co-starred in Tennessee Williams’ Cat on a Hot Tin Roof with Antaeus Theatre Company in Glendale, CA this spring (she has been involved with Antaeus since 2005, officially becoming a member in 2007). She has performed in theatres throughout Los Angeles as well as on the East Coast; appeared on several television programs, including Modern Family; and is narrator of several audio books, including The Vampire Diaries.
2002 JESSICA (SARACENO) CARROLL writes, “My husband Brendan and I welcomed our son Parker William Carroll on June 26, 2016. He was born in Cape May, NJ. We live in Basking Ridge, just down the street from Pingry. My husband is an attorney at Connell Foley in Roseland. I just joined O’Toole Scrivo in Cedar Grove and was named Of Counsel 100
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TRACY DUNGO PORGES was profiled in the Adidas.com blog “All Day” about her company Kalaki Riot, which sells handcrafted jewelry. According to her website, Tracy wanted to create a global lifestyle brand that promotes finding balance in the things people own and in their lives. “Kalaki” is the Hawaiian name for Tracy, and Riot “represents the disruptive fusion of ‘city’ and ‘island,’ a brilliant display and wild disorder of two worlds that aren’t normally placed together.”
’19, ’21, this program allows Upper School students with a demonstrated interest in science to take a closer look at the process of science and hear about cutting-edge research from Pingry alumni who are in science. Having earned a B.S. and minored in Art History at the University of Notre Dame, Brooke is a Ph.D. student at The Rockefeller University in New York City, studying in the Smogorzewska Laboratory (Dr. Agata Smogorzewska is Associate Professor of Genome Maintenance). Brooke met with Form III Honors Biology students in April and will return to Pingry annually to update them on her research. In her remarks to the freshmen, she spoke about how
being a member of the S.M.A.R.T. Team gave her an early introduction to protein function and learning how biology works on a molecular level. “Pingry’s research program was in its early years, and it’s amazing how far the program has come,” she said. “Then, the research programs at Notre Dame made me want to pursue a Ph.D. At Rockefeller, I’m studying DNA damage, repair, and replication, and they have an amazing modern art collection that ties to my interest in art history.”
2010 MATTEO VALENTE, Pingry’s 2009-10 AFS Student, graduated from the University of Bologna’s medical school on June 12.
2004 JEFF RAMIREZ and his company Denizens Brewing Co. were featured in April in an article on the website BYT (brightestyoungthings.com). Part of BYT’s “Freshly Tapped” series that spotlights a recently-released beer, the article focuses on Denizens’s “Backyard Boogie.” The company is located in Silver Spring, MD.
Dinner in New York City. Back row: Katie Parsels ’09, Director of Alumni Relations and Annual Giving Holland Sunyak Francisco ’02, Conor Starr ’09, and Andrew Babbitt ’09. Front row: Leslie Springmeyer ’08, Miller Bugliari ’52, P ’86, ’90, ’97, GP ’20, ’24, Cory Babcock ’09, and Eric Hynes ’08.
2007 DR. AMANDA KING gave a keynote speech at Pingry’s Annual Research Exhibit. Read more on page 56.
2009 BROOKE CONTI is the recipient of the Headmaster’s Researcher Fellowship for the Class of 2020. Coordinated by Upper School biology teacher Deirdre O’Mara P ’17,
Jen Lang’s bachelorette party in Charleston, SC: Darragh Egan ’09, Katie Salvaggio ’09, Jen Lang ’09, Hillary Densen ’09, and Katie Parsels ’09.