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Miller Bugliari Memory Book - Page 2 | ||
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Jere Ross,’52 Miller and I go back to Pingry’s sixth grade, in the fall of 1946. Miller actually entered Pingry in1861 as one its first students, but he had been hanging around until the sport of soccer received what he felt was a dignified level of recognition in the U.S. before he decided to make his move. (At least it seems as though Miller has always been at Pingry.) My early memories include going to the Bugliari’s large brick house in Plainfield after school or on a Saturday to play in their yard or the large attic room that was devoted to toys and things and lots of them. Miller’s mother always provided a warm welcome and a timely snack. The ensuing years are all kind of a blur, but with fond recollections of working on The Record with Miller, who actually got his famous line, “From the Indies to the Andes in his Undies”, into the paper somehow, to the dismay of Caz France who was always trying to cure us of our boorish tendencies. But I can say emphatically that Pingry would have been a dull and joyless place without Miller to enliven things and keep us all from taking ourselves too seriously. To him, we were all a bunch of straight-men, and we loved it. | ||
Richard B. Manley '63 ("Dick"...1953-1963...10 years at Pingry) As a soccer player my fondest memories of coach are, of course, related to the years I played for him; the practices, the games, the workouts and running laps after a victory that didn't meet his expectations or standards. I played forward on the JV Team, but Miller decided I'd make a better goalie, took me to the high jump pit, taught me how to do those acrobatic dives and play the position. This changed my athletic life. But I also remember him well as a great Biology teacher, chaperone on our senior class trip to Bermuda...yes we actually did that in those days...and most of all as a mentor. Without his constant vigilance and encouragement I seriously doubt that I would have graduated from Pingry. This also changed my life and I will forever be grateful to him for seeing something in me that I didn't see in myself. He is truly a remarkable man and a gift to us all. I think by the time you're done with this it will be a treatise the length of "War and Peace"...what a formidable undertaking!
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I went to Pingry from 1954 to 1966, had Miller as my bio teacher, and worked as his colleague at Pingry from 1976 until 1987. To put it short and sweet, Miller is the heart and soul of The Pingry School --- always was and always will be. If you cut him, he'll bleed blue and white. They don't come any better!!! Absolutely irreplaceable. |
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