Pingree\'s 50th

Pingree’s 50th

Gala

Celebration Saturday, May 7, 2011

Mission Statement Dedicated to academic excellence and development of high personal standards, Pingree believes that a love of learning flourishes best in a diverse community that respects truth, curiosity, creativity, humor, and independent and imaginative thinking. Above all, Pingree strives to instill in its students integrity, decency, compassion, self-esteem and commitment to one another and to the world at large. Adopted by Board of Trustees June 13, 2000

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Pingree Golden Anniversary Gala May 7, 2011 6:00 p.m.

Registration begins on the Front Lawn

6:00 – 7: 30 p.m.

Cocktail receptions under the tent and inside school



Classic Car exhibit



Performance by Pingree Spectrum Highlights

7:30 p.m.

Bagpiper lead guests into dinner

7:30 p.m.

Dinner served

8:30 p.m. Remarks by Head of School Dr. Timothy Johnson and Board President Kirk Bishop

Recitation of original poem by Mrs. Ailsa Steinert

Student musical performances by Erik Jalajas ’11 and Shayan McGee ’11 9:00 p.m. – midnight Dancing in the Commons with live music by Joey Scott and the Connection Please take time to view the art exhibit in the Bertolon Family Gallery featuring the work of Pingree alumni.

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Message from the Head of School What a wonderful occasion that brings us all together tonight. Happy 50th, Pingree School! This is a milestone moment for a school that began with a dream, a home, and many passionate people. Pingree was the first independent day school for girls on the North Shore, setting a precedent for preparing young women for collegiate lives of scholarship and leadership throughout the country. In the fall of 1961, Pingree opened its doors to 50 students. Today, we welcome 338 students, boys and girls, through the very same front door each day. With the support and guidance of teachers and coaches, they dedicate themselves, just as their predecessors did, to exploring, discovering, imagining, serving, and stretching themselves to new heights. Thank you for being with us tonight to share in this celebration of community, academic excellence, and Pingree. Beyond the beautiful historic home, grandeur of the grounds, and tradition of excellence, it’s the warm and generous spirit of all who have walked through our front door that makes us Pingree -- Proudly Pingree. Cheers! Tim Johnson

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Message from our Board President It is my distinct honor to serve as Pingree’s Board President as we embark upon our second half-century. There is so much to celebrate in all the school has accomplished and the state in which we find ourselves. There is so much in our past for which we should be collectively proud and so much in our future that promises new sources of excitement. It is with awe and appreciation that we remember and honor those upon whose shoulders we have ridden to this place in time: the alumni, faculty and administrators (past and present), former trustees and overseers, former heads of school and, of course, the Pingree family. We thank you for joining us on campus for this celebration. Be confident that as we set an ambitious course for the next 50 years we will never lose sight of what is so special about this school. Kirk Bishop Proud Pingree Parent, ’06, ’06, ’08

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A Message from the Founding Headmaster of Pingree School Thank you all for coming to this celebration. In midsummer 1960, there was a party given the night before the founders met. In attendance were a modest number of curious North Shore families to cheer about a proposed new school.

as school was ending on a Friday afternoon, came the terrible news of President Kennedy’s assassination. And in 1968 the murders of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy completed a decade of tragedy. I have often wondered how the school survived those perilous times. But we did. Enrollment grew, new buildings went up, and a continuous stream of dedicated teachers kept the faculty strong. Our music, art, dance, and athletic programs flourished. And we continued to attract students from an ever broadening geographic area.

Contrary to popular lore, Marcia and I did not attend Pingree’s farewell gala. It was probably just as well. From its very beginning, most of the faculty enjoyed working at Pingree. And why not? The magnificent buildings, the grounds, the rooms, the informality, and energy at all levels meant most of us really did look forward to coming up the front drive each day. And if this enjoyment occasionally threatened to change to complacency, a blast from Mr. Pingree’s afternoon horn, demanding a fields and cattle tour, soon brought us back to earth.

What makes a successful school? The same old answer still applies – the character of the people who love it. For half a century, students, faculty, parents, staff, and graduates have loved Pingree. To mention one and not another would be unjust.

The 60s were sad and troubling times. How well I remember the entire school huddling in the basement bowling alley in 1962 during the first missile crisis drill. A little over a year later, just

So three cheers for Sumner and Mary Pingree – and three more for the rest of us! Robin Rogers

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A Message from the Founding Board President I’m happy to be here with you this evening and even happier to see that the Pingree School which I knew well in its youth has grown up to be such a wonderfully successful institution as an adult. About 50 years ago, Robin Rogers and I stood outside the same green front door we all came in tonight. We had been given the blessings of Mr. and Mrs. Pingree and a key, which seemed very small compared with the size of the building. Once inside, we glanced around, and then, somewhat awestruck, we both agreed that whatever we did, we had better not lose that key. Fortunately, we clung to the key as we took up the first of the many tasks ahead of us; it was to fit a full senior high school into the house with the least damage possible to its original elegance. Some of the other essential tasks, to develop an effective and highly ethical Board of Trustees, find a student body of several hundred students, and to create a young faculty capable of sparking the students into useful pursuits.

Our fondest hope was that the whole school could approach the process of education as a team working together. Easy to say, but not a bit easy to do. Each year brought new accomplishment in these tasks. Quite quickly, our Board had become capable and very useful. We had no genius or power house business leader, but we had energy, a ton of common sense, and a natural ability to get along and work together. The faculty as well under Robin assisted by Dick Kennedy started to show strength and depth of character. However, as much as we loved ourselves, around the communities we had plenty of doubters and detractors. Many thought of us as a sump for students who couldn’t make it in other schools and gave us faint chance of getting our girls into good colleges. It was indeed a happy day when our first graduating class produced an outstanding record of college admissions and squashed the naysayers. We were on the map!

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No matter what though, we can always find something to worry about. Or at least I could. My concern was “As time goes on, how could we find new people with the energy and determination to carry on the work we have begun?” I worried about that a lot! This evening brings us a very clear answer. A large part of the guest list tonight is made up of the leadership of Pingree at one time or another during the last forty years. I can only say, “what a superb job you have all done.” I want to offer my must humble and heartfelt thanks to you all. Each of you knows many of you who contributed so much; there is one person I will mention to stand in for all of you. As you can guess, that is Mrs. Pingree. As a person she was given much, but she gave of herself unsparingly. I hope her stamp of warmth and kindness, generosity and good humor will remain with Pingree always. She has set a standard for us and we are honored to carry her name. Richard Harte, Jr.

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DONORS AND SPONSORS 24 K Sponsors Mr. and Mrs. William J. Kneisel Mr. and Mrs. Kurt Melden Mr. and Mrs. Richard Tadler

Event Sponsors Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Adner Mr. and Mrs. Ahmad Arash Art Supply Wholesale Ms. Ann Beckert ’71 Mrs. Joanne Beyer Mr. and Mrs. Alexander K. Buck, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Steve Carey Ms. Livia Cowan ’77 and Mr. Mark Glovsky Mr. and Mrs. Peter Cowen Mr. and Mrs. Gene del Rio Mr. and Mrs. Salvatore Di Lillo Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Fantone Ms. Wendy Vincent Fox ’86 Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Hebbel ’82 Mrs. Jeanne Holloran Mr. Kevin Hunter ’76 and Mrs. Jacqueline Hunter ’77 Mr. and Mrs. Mark Johnson Ms. Emily Jones ’74 and Mr. Kevin Jones Ms. Dorothy Kraft Mr. and Mrs. George Lanes Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Levenson Mr. and Mrs. Chris Lione Mrs. Mary Loomis Mr. and Mrs. Sam Mawn-Mahlau Mrs. Joyce McCarthy Mrs. Cordelia McGuaid Ms. Elizabeth Dowd and Mr. Douglas McGarrah Ms. Esther Darling Mulroy ’69 Ms. Tracy Nigrelli ’98 Ms. Debra Nagler ’97 Mrs. Jacqueline Oakes-Harding Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Patrican, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Dean Perkins Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Perry Mr. and Mrs. Richard. D. Phippen Mr. and Mrs. Michael Potoczak Ms. Gayle S. Richmond ’74 Ms. Gail Cushman Rose ’76 Ms. Christopher Sanders ’66 Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Sheehan Mr. and Mrs. James D. Smeallie (Mrs. Martha Lyness Smeallie ’78) Mr. Frank S. Streeter II ’79 Mr. and Mrs. Richard Sullivan Mrs. Ann R. Tadler Mr. and Mrs. Donald Taylor Mr. Richard Tokowicz and Ms. Barbara Tomkins Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Uhle Ms. Ann Haug Winter ’71

18 K Sponsor Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Darling, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Gary Kaneb Mr. and Mrs. Frederick H. Glore Dr. Jagruti Patel ’84 and Mr. Rahul Patel ’86 14 K Sponsors Mr. and Mrs. Harold Cohen Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm Coates Mrs. Fellowes Davis Mr. and Mrs. Robert Emmons Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Gaquin Mr. and Mrs. Peter Harriss Mr. James Kellogg ’85 and Mrs. Kate Cairns Kellogg ’86 Dr. Alysa LeBel ’75 Mr. and Mrs. Victor Livingstone Mr. and Mrs. Robert Mattie Dr. and Mrs. Eugene Mickey Dr. and Mrs. Enrico Petrillo Mr. and Mrs. William L. Pingree Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Rucker Faculty Sponsors Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Attenborough Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Barnett Mr. and Mrs. Joshua Cahill ’93 Mr. and Mrs. Steven Castraberti Mr. and Mrs. Frank Deland Mr. and Mrs. James Deveney Mr. and Mrs. Nagaraja Donti Mr. Robert Fishman ’90 Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Glore (Mrs. Constance Pemberton Glore ’69) Mr. and Mrs. James Hewson Mr. and Mrs. Michael Kaczynski Mr. and Mrs. Todd Kanter Mr. and Mrs. Robert Mattie Mrs. Elaine McGuire Mr. and Mrs. David Mehlin Ms. Alice Miller ’82 Mr. and Mrs. Kurt Melden Mr. and Mrs. John Novack Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Ober Mr. and Mrs. Michael Patrican Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Rawlins Ms. Leslie Reichert Mr. and Mrs. Michael Rogers Mr. and Mrs. Keith Shaughnessy Mr. and Mrs. James D. Smeallie Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Steward Mr. and Mrs. Richard Tadler Mr. Michael Updike ’76 Ms. Julia Wenniger ’85 Mr. and Mrs. Ben Wittner Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Wright

We have taken every care to make an accurate list of our generous supporters to Pingree School’s 50th Anniversary Gala as of press time on April 29. If we did not include your name as a donor, please accept our sincere thanks and appreciation for your generous support! A complete list of donors will be published in our 2010-2011 Annual Report. THANK YOU!

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The excitement and success of Pingree School’s Golden Anniversary Gala is a reflection of the Pingree Community. These are the people who have graciously offered their skills, knowledge, time and hard work. Their enthusiasm, flexibility and attention to detail have made this wonderful evening a memorable event

VOLUNTEERS Dorothy Batchelder Clare Byrne Heidi diCicco Jennifer Eddy Laurel Galasso Maureen and Andrew Gilbert Gloribel Gonzalez Jackie Harriss Teresa Karamitsios Marie Lamb Olive Larsen Susan Moran Mary O’Hare Dee Petrillo Joan Sullivan Robin Willcox

Traci Beatrice Erin Callahan Donna Di Lillo Tia Miller Franzese Lisa Gaquin Julie Goldstein Dawn Greenwood Kim Khachadourian Francene Kanter Kersten Lanes Colleen McKenna Nancy Novack Kristin Patrican Beth Prawdzik Liz Varga

WITH SPECIAL THANKS TO: Robin Kramer of Robin Kramer Garden Design Timothy S. Hopkins Catering Events for Rent Marcorelle’s Liquors The Ipswich Bottle Shop Charlie Storey ’77 and Harpoon Brewery Joey Scott and the Connection Ailsa Steinert Baystate Pipers Erik Jalajas ’11 and Shayan McGee ’11 Caroline Mead ’11 and Andrew McGarrah ’10 Monica Brile and Pingree Spectrum Highlights Pingree School Building & Grounds Staff Brenda Riddell, Graphic Details

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Following Socrates Braced against analogy, the copper beech, backlit in morning sifts speculation in its top branches until the ends of stories tangle there, to coax response, stretch possibility – the wide sea of Melville, flailing innocent – the death-dream sweep of Blake – Dickens’ tending hands denying rage – and still, I watch the leaves filtering, furthering – Dostoevsky and the sparrows rest along the branches there for taking. We are a migration path. Sojourners stop – cajoled, sometimes mended, always admired for foray and launch. They cry out, dip to feed and idle – from the farthest green, thud soccer balls – strike field hockey stick against stick. A football, launched against the sky. On the pond, a yellow leaf spins, falls. Snow rolls through maples dark and brown, and the gloved fox vanishes in woods. By a library window, a sophomore girl leafs through history, looses the smoke of old war, the sweep of restoration. A chemist tills elements – glass and granite under lab lights. Math disciples at a classroom table work a web of charts. And in the studio, arched throat of zebra, crown of frog – the artist sculpts grasshoppers to fly the gallery. Voices like surf surge in the halls, scatter in the lunch line. Spring redwings settle the wetlands, sweet song, love song. Threading the edge of trees, a ribbon of runners – the old dog slips like cream through grass behind them. Eruptions of dance, poem, paint, crescendo in near summer night. Music spills from the house over families gathered – promising return, promising tomorrow –à bientôt, adios, vale, good-bye Ailsa Kennedy Steinert

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WE GROW UP HERE By Andrew McGarrah ’10 and Caroline Mead ’11 Autumn time Leaves they start to turn and burn like bright sunshine It’s keeping you alive and all the things you’ll learn Are waiting right inside just open up the door Open the door

We grow up here for a couple of years Who we are isn’t far, isn’t near It’s right here, it’s right now It could change, it could stay Either way we’re ok Cause we all Grow up

We grow up here for a couple of years Who we are isn’t far, isn’t near It’s right here, it’s right now It could change, it could stay Either way we’re ok Cause we all Grow up here

Here we are So soon we go Don’t walk too far Cause it’s all we know and it’s here We grow up here for a couple of years Who we are isn’t far, isn’t near t’s right here, it’s right now It could change, it could stay Either way we’re ok Cause we all Grow up here

Sunshine blue We’re deep into winter when I think of you And everyone here has got something else to do Somedays are gray, I’ll hold on to today Cause hey

Grow up here Grow up here

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“The best thing for being sad,” replied Merlyn… “is to learn something. That is the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins,…you may see the world around you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honor trampled in the sewer of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then – to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing that the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the best thing for you.” -T.H. White The Once and Future King

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The First Baptist Church in Beverly congratulates The Pingree School on 50 years of superb education for high school youth! We also celebrate our very own Pingree student, Anna Mei Gubbins. We are so proud of you and of all that you have accomplished! The First Baptist Church in Beverly 221 Cabot Street www.fbcbeverly.org

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“I am grateful for the challenges (both academic and social) that my child received. He was challenged to meet new people and try different activities. He learned valuable life lessons about discipline and tenacity. He also brushed up on some academic fundamentals and discovered his learning styles for the first time.” P@P parent 2010

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How can i Help? Prep@Pingree enrolls 35 students each year at a cost of roughly $2,500 per student. Despite a turbulent economy, friends of Prep@ Pingree supported our students and staff more than ever before. To fully sponsor a Prep@Pingree graduate to attend Pingree School costs $35,000 per year. There are many ways to invest in Prep@Pingree. Gifts of any size are appreciated. For more information, go to www.pingree.org or contact Steven Filosa, Director, 978-468-4415 x 265. Your contributions will be invested in: Scholarships for Prep@Pingree alumni to attend Pingree School $35,000 Transportation, meals, learning materials $10,000 Stipends for Pingree School students and Prep@Pingree alumni to work for Prep@Pingree $2,000 Scholarships for Lawrence and Lynn middle school students to attend Prep@Pingree $2,500 Prep@Pingree field trips $500

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Classic Car Exhibit YEAR MODEL OWNER Bentley Speed Six Gil Steward 1930 1932 Cadillac V8 Fred Jackson 1940 Buick Model 91 Jack Welch and Jean O’Toole 1941 Packard 160 Charlie Pingree 1941 Lincoln Continental Charlie Pingree 1941 Cadillac Series 62 Bill Pappas 1950 Bentley Mark VI Gil Steward 1953 Chevrolet Bel Air Paul DeCourcy 1956 Ford F-100 Ted Peach 1956 Packard 400 Peter and Diana Telis Chevrolet Impala Wes Graves 1959

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Founding Board of Trustees Richard Harte, Jr., President Edward P. Roberts, Treasurer Peter B. Seamans, Secretary William S. Rogers, Headmaster

Caleb Loring, Jr. Mary MacDonald Edith Meyer Florence Perkins Susanne Phippen Mary Weld Pingree Sumner Pingree Henry Streeter David Taylor Rev. James Whittemore

Thomas G. Brown, Jr. W. Peter Carey Philip Cutler Richard M. Cutler Nelson Darling, Jr. Fellowes Davis

My Heart’s in the Highlands Burns/Moore Fitzpatrick, arr. My heart’s in the highlands, my heart’s always here. My heart’s in the highlands when you are not near. Wherever I wander, wherever I roam, My heart’s in the highlands, The highlands of home. Farewell, farewell, farewell to the highlands, And all that I know. Farewell to the highlands, on a new path I go Wherever I wander, one truth stands above. You are the highlands, the highlands I love. Yes, you are the highlands, The highlands I love.

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