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Miller Bugliari Memory Book | |||
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Introduction Miller A. Bugliari ’52 was inducted into the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) Hall of Fame in January 2006 and was enshrined into the National Soccer Hall of Fame (NSHOF) in Oneonta, NY in August 2006. In January 2006, in response to such an honorable achievement, we received memories, stories and well wishes from his family, friends, players, classmates, alumni, and faculty and staff of Pingry. We compiled these memories into a booklet that was given to Miller in January. Due to the overwhelming response to such a project we have decided to compile all your memories of Miller onto this website. If you wish to contribute to the website, please contact Kristen Tinson, Assistant Director of Alumni Relations at ktinson@pingry.org.
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The young Miller Bugliari |
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George Ways, Class of 1967. I have several Miller stories, but I’d like to recount one of them. I live in Atlanta and see Miller each year or two when he comes by to see the local Pingry grads. This has been going on since the late ‘70’s thru a few months ago when we all met the new Headmaster. But in the fall of ’63, spring of ’64, I was a freshman taking Miller’s biology class on the old Hillside campus. And all of the apocryphal stories of how he used to rant and rave and punish the class or individual “hacking” offenders with writing multiple copies of the Okapi phylum are absolutely true. Our problem was of course how to get back at him for this monotonous practice; in an appropriately respectful way, of course. The one true prize of Miller’s classroom was Antoine. Antoine was Miller’s full “body”, wired together skeleton that was always hanging in the front of the class. As with all things Miller, it came replete with the obligatory side storey as to how he found the body in the streets of Calcutta, and had it “cleaned up” and shipped back to Pingry. Looking back on it now, I’m not even sure Antoine was real or plastic, but we all believed. So following either a lab or mandatory Okapi session, three of us set out to “rewire” Antoine. Basically we loosened the connections to the legs just enough for them to continue to hang, but would release at the slightest touch. In the ensuing class we expected Miller would, like always, use Antoine in some manner of explanation, and set off the leg release on his own. Thus none of us would be directly linked to the deed. But as with all ill conceived acts of vandalism, it wasn’t going according to plan. Miller lectured for 75% of the class without ever once referring to Antoine. Those of us who were in on the plan grew more and more frustrated with each minute. Finally I could stand it no more, and in a split second of potential career ending angst, I acted. While Miller was discussing the disease rickets, I asked him where it manifested. He naturally verbally replied. Persisting, I asked him to show us on Antoine. He complied, the bones scattered, the class roared, I was awarded seeming millions of Okapi’s to write and a Pingry tradition was born. After he later convinced us that Antoine could suffer damage if we didn’t desist from this now daily exercise, we wired him for thread assisted puppet-like obscene hand/finger gestures. More Okapi! I knew some stuff about “forest giraffes”.
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Cope Eschenlauer, 1980 I pursued a doctorate in Biochemistry because of my love of Biology that began as I studied under Mr. Bugliari's and Mr. Whittemore's instruction. I was also infected with an enduring enthusiasm for soccer. |
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Diana Abreu (current parent ’96 and ’09) This is so nice! I have had the pleasure of knowing Miller for 20 years. All my contacts with him both as my colleague and as the teacher of his children have been memorable. Miller, for me, is a constant. He is all that Pingry represents in terms of ethics, honor, etc. Miller is "Mr. Pingry". I have never experienced a time when Miller is not cheerful and upbeat especially when it comes to the school he obviously loves so much. It has been a pleasure to know him and I am so thrilled that he has received this award.
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