In the classroom, Mrs. Euwer introduced the interdisciplinary “State Project” in social studies as a way for students to learn about a state while developing their research and writing skills. She also co-created the Lower School’s garden in 2010 and assisted with the garden’s refurbishment about a decade later.

During her Pingry career, Mrs. Euwer received three Pingry honors: the Herbert F. Hahn Junior Faculty Award (1997; encourages young teachers to stay in the field and recognizes good teaching and successful involvement in multiple extracurricular responsibilities), the Woodruff J. English Faculty Endowment Fund (2002; for embodying the spirit of the Honor Code), and The Albert W. Booth Chair for Master Teachers (2016; for reflecting the qualities of honor, integrity, idealism, dedication to students, and reverence for scholarship).

He later continued his career in Washington, D.C. in international development as a low-income housing specialist at the Cooperative Housing Foundation (today, Global Communities).

Mr. Edmondson was a leader in his field and a steadfast ally in the fight for equality and social justice. The global, compassionate perspective of his uncle, documentary filmmaker Julien Bryan, had an indelible effect on him. Influenced by European socialist models of affordable housing, Mr. Edmondson traveled to such countries as Haiti, Botswana, Lesotho, Ghana, Ethiopia, Egypt, and India, facilitating the development of thousands of housing units for the very poor.

In East Jerusalem for three years, he worked for the Cooperative Development Project in support of Palestinian farming cooperatives. Upon returning to Washington, D.C., Mr. Edmondson worked for the Unitarian Universalist Affordable Housing Corporation, focusing on the housing needs of Washington’s low-income population. He was also an active member of the Washington Interfaith Alliance for Middle East Peace.

Seeking to work at the highest level of the entertainment business in New York, Ms. Joel became an entertainment and media analyst for Goldman Sachs, learning what drives the business aspects of entertainment. When that job ended, she continued to read novels and considered working in publishing. As an agent (combining editorial and sales), she would look at the “big picture” of a book’s content and try to sell the work to a publisher; as a publisher (combining editorial and marketing), she would focus more on refinement and promoting the book.

Ms. Joel knew a lot about sales, so she became an assistant at the literary agency Sanford J. Greenburger Associates, educated herself about the publishing industry, and began to sell books. She then joined ICM Partners as a literary agent for fiction and non-fiction, ultimately becoming a partner and Co-Head of the Publishing Department. Through successes and failures, she learned what works and what doesn’t work to sell a book. One of her notable successes: turning a one-man Broadway play by Billy Crystal (700 Sundays) into a memoir. Her other clients have included Chris Cleave, Shonda Rhimes, and other prominent writers.

Ms. Joel has said that writers entrust agents with their fiscal lives and their dreams, and she believes that an agent who believes in those dreams is inspired to go the extra mile.

After 12 years at Pingry, Ms. Davis majored in International Studies at Emory University, then earned a Master of Education at the University of Georgia and a law degree at the University of Michigan Law School, where she was exposed to employment law and served as an editor of the law journal, the Michigan Law Review. She decided that employment law would offer the opportunity to make a huge impact by ensuring that employers are compliant with the law and treat their employees properly.

She has handled employment litigation in federal and state courts, representing employers and employees in lawsuits brought under federal laws, and has investigated cases for Fortune 500 manufacturing companies and nationally renowned hospitals. She has also worked as a trial attorney for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).

In 2013, Ms. Davis was a co-founding partner of The Employment Law Solution (ELS), an African American–owned, woman-owned law firm. Working with national and international clients, Ms. Davis found that she loved being able to train managers and employees on “how to work in a diverse environment and stay on the right side of the law.”

As of 2022, Ms. Davis left ELS to become Associate General Counsel for Employment at WestRock, an international packaging company with 50,000 employees. She provides legal support to WestRock’s headquarters, as well as offices in the southern region of the U.S., the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico, working to improve the lives of the company’s workers.

He taught graduate-level courses on racial disparities and health, and was director or co-director of programs that involved mentoring of trainees—most from underrepresented students of color in the field—who were aspiring to enter the medical and/or public health professions. Dr. Cunningham also published more than 140 peer-reviewed papers and was a reviewer for the American Journal of Public Health.

Dr. Cunningham was a national leader in addressing racial/ethnic and socioeconomic disparities among populations living with, or at risk of, HIV. He led a program, LINK L.A. (the first of its kind), which helped HIV-positive men who were released from prison continue to receive medical care. He also led numerous studies, including one that showed the choices some people need to make between receiving medical care and education, or medical care versus food. In an interview, he commented on what he viewed as the artificial division of funding that then requires decisions about which areas to fund. “People shouldn't have to make a choice between starving or bleeding to death,” he said in an interview.

Among many other organizations, Dr. Cunningham was a member of the National Medical Association; the International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care; Fielding School’s UCLA Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Equity; and the Center for the Study of Racism, Social Justice & Health.

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After graduating with a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the U.S. Naval Academy, he reported to Navy flight school and completed master’s degrees in International Relations. In the Navy, he has flown supersonic fighter jets from aircraft carriers, and flown combat missions over Afghanistan and Iraq. He has endless gratitude to the sailors who maintain the aircraft, as he is fully aware of the teamwork needed to prepare a jet for missions off an aircraft carrier, and the fact that the sailors work hard in dangerous environments, including snowstorms and incredibly hot weather.

He has logged over 3,500 flight hours and 800 arrested landings. His decorations include the Defense Superior Service Medal, Legion of Merit, Defense Meritorious Service Medal, Meritorious Service Medal, Air Medal (two awards), Navy Commendation Medal (five awards, one with combat distinguishing device), Navy Achievement medal, and various unit, service, and campaign awards. For Captain Baird, a military career encompasses leadership and mentorship; serving as an ambassador of the U.S. and helping promote stability and security throughout the world; and playing a role in missions that can only be completed by the military.

Captain Baird is Commanding Officer of the Navy’s largest European base, U.S. Naval Station Rota, Spain.
 

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Because Mr. Rice came from an economically disadvantaged community and a family with a record of public service, one Pingry memory relates to awareness. “I was always a world-conscious student focused on solving inequities within our nation and the world. When my friends and I decided to create The Awareness Society to help educate others at Pingry about how the other half lived, I initially thought it would be met with reasons why it would not work. Instead, teachers stepped up to help.”

In his career, Mr. Rice has sought to continue solving inequities, first as a two-term City Councilman in Newark. “Education was personal for me. The failure to deliver a challenging curriculum in urban areas is detrimental to the American dream, so education became a big part of my platform—to fundamentally change the offerings of Newark schools.” His solution was to create and expand charter schools.

That motivation provided a natural transition to his current position, Senior Director for Government Relations with the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools in Washington, D.C. The alliance seeks to build a strong charter school network across the country, which means that Mr. Rice advocates for the next generation. “Parents need choices for their children’s education, and charter schools should be part of the menu.”

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“My time at Pingry was so much about discovery—discovering the theater and finding myself through the creative process of telling stories,” she said. A significant part of storytelling involves the authenticity of one’s character, and Ms. Mozo is committed to honesty and authenticity in all aspects of life because of the enduring value of the Honor Code. Plus, at Pingry, she learned about commitment. “In life, on stage, in your work, in your relationships—commit fully. The really great things happen when you are present.”

Speaking of discovery and great things happening, Ms. Mozo shares a memory of performing the title role in Pingry’s 1999 production of the Stephen Schwartz/Joseph Stein musical The Baker’s Wife. “We needed a big cast, and we needed more male performers, but we were having difficulty getting people . . . Being on stage can be daunting and scary, vulnerable . . . we were able to recruit all these great guys, most of them athletes. They jumped in, committed, and ended up loving it. I loved watching them discover theater; we created this terrific community and built that show like a band of unlikely misfits. It reminds me that anything is possible.”

Along with her career on stage, film, and television, including appearances on Grey’s Anatomy, Modern Family, and The Young and the Restless, Ms. Mozo narrates audiobooks and, in 2020, won AudioFile’s “Earphones Award” for her narration of Martin L. Shoemaker’s science fiction story The Last Campaign.

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Already in her young career—and even before she graduated from Pingry—Claudia has won competitions and performed in summer music festivals and renowned concert halls, such as Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall and Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall. In 2014, she appeared as soloist with the Plainfield Symphony, and she has performed concertos with other orchestras.

Asked once what she considers the most important quality in a pianist, Claudia responded with several attributes that have to do with one’s state of mind: be calm and introspective, and become familiar with the background of a piece of music as well as the life of its composer.

For one of her competitions during high school, Claudia wrote an essay about her goals for a career in music. "One of my main goals is to learn from every single performance, even the concerts that I am just watching. Another one of my goals is to inspire others to play and listen to classical music. I want others to see how beautiful and passionate it can be . . . By performing and encouraging others to listen to music, I hope I can continue this tradition by inspiring the younger community to learn about classical music."

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He spent 29 years in the Navy, 26 of them as a naval aviator, becoming the foremost engineering test pilot in a century (attributed to his superb skills as an aviator and a diagnostician of airplane behavior). His talents would help the Navy modernize its aircraft and initiate advanced procedures for naval air testing and development.

Two of his most significant accomplishments contributed to the U.S.’s victory in World War II—the development of two fighter airplanes, the Corsair and Hellcat. Regarding the Hellcat: standard Navy approval cycles required six to eight months of testing before starting production of an airplane, but the Navy needed a fighter with superior performance. So, the Bureau of Aeronautics agreed that, if Trapnell approved the production model, the bureau would authorize production. He completed his test flights in one day, made a few recommendations, and the Hellcat became the most successful fighter in naval aviation history.

During the war, Trapnell became the first Navy pilot to fly America’s first jet airplane and, following the war, he guided the Navy through the transition to a new jet age. His principles: test pilots should be superb fliers with a firm grasp of aerodynamics and aircraft mechanics, as well as the vocabulary to communicate with aeronautical engineers, and flight tests must probe every aspect of an airplane’s operation and behaviors.

For his achievements, U.S. Navy Vice Admiral Trapnell is celebrated as the “Godfather of Modern Naval Aviation” and “Premier Navy Test Pilot of All Time.”

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