Qualla: Pingry School https://qualla.com/pingry-school en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:16 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Pingry School https://qualla.com/pingry-school Pingry School: Introduction https://qualla.com/pingry-school/ The American Civil War made the Pingry School possible. In 1861, when the only professional educator in Elizabeth, New Jersey, enlisted in the Union Army, a Presbyterian minister named John Francis Pingry saw an opening. He had already founded a boys' academy in Roseville in 1854, but the war had dried up enrollment there. So Pingry moved to Elizabeth and started fresh, building a school that combined rigorous academics with moral education. He could not have known that his wartime improvisation would still be running more than 160 years later, now spread across three campuses and enrolling over 1,100 students from kindergarten through twelfth grade.

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/4/z/pingry-school-wp/dr4z-pingry-school-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Pingry School: Five Addresses, One Mission https://qualla.com/pingry-school/ Pingry has been restless in geography but consistent in purpose. The school moved from its original Elizabeth schoolhouse to a Parker Road campus in 1893, the same year John Pingry died. In 1953, under headmaster E. Laurence Springer -- whose 25-year tenure from 1936 to 1961 rema...

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/4/z/pingry-school-wp/dr4z-pingry-school-five-addresses-one-mission.mp3 0:06 2 full Pingry School: The Bugliari Dynasty on the Pitch https://qualla.com/pingry-school/ If Pingry has a living legend, it is Miller Bugliari. The soccer coach led the boys' program for more than 60 years, compiling 850 wins, 116 losses, and 75 ties through his career -- a record that ranked him second among all boys' soccer coaches in the nation. He was inducted int...

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/4/z/pingry-school-wp/dr4z-pingry-school-the-bugliari-dynasty-on-the-pitch.mp3 0:06 3 full Pingry School: Reckoning with a Painful Past https://qualla.com/pingry-school/ In March 2016, Pingry sent a letter to its community revealing that students had been sexually abused by Thad Alton, an employee from 1972 to 1978 who had come to Pingry through its merger with Short Hills Country Day School. The disclosure came after the law firm Crew Janci LLP ...

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/4/z/pingry-school-wp/dr4z-pingry-school-reckoning-with-a-painful-past.mp3 0:06 4 full Pingry School: The School Today https://qualla.com/pingry-school/ Pingry now enrolls 1,129 students -- 288 at Short Hills and 841 at Basking Ridge -- drawn from over 100 communities across twelve New Jersey counties. The student body is diverse: roughly 48% White, 22% multiracial, 18% Asian, 9% Black, and 2% Hispanic as of recent data. Middle 5...

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